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Pulp fictions of medieval England : essays in popular romance
- Title
- Pulp fictions of medieval England : essays in popular romance / edited by Nicola McDonald.
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the US by Palgrave, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR321 .P85 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McDonald, Nicola.
- Description
- 250 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Although Middle English popular romance is an audacious and compendious testimony to the English Middle Ages, it remains under-read and under-studied. This study presents popular romance as worthy of critical attention and also crucial to understanding the complex world of medieval England.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Romances, English > History and criticism
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- Literature and society > England > History > To 1500
- Popular literature > England > History and criticism
- Books and reading > England > History > To 1500
- Narrative poetry, English > History and criticism
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Books and reading
- English literature > Middle English
- Literature and society
- Narrative poetry, English
- Popular literature
- Romances, English
- Mittelenglisch
- Romanze
- Romancen
- Middelengels
- Mondelinge literatuur
- Romanze
- England
- Mittelenglisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Incorporation in the Siege of Melayne / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- The twin demons of aristocratic society in Sir Gowther / Alcuin Blamires -- A, A and B: coding same-sex union in Amis and Amiloun / Sheila Delany -- Sir Degrevant: what lovers want / Arlyn Diamond -- Putting the pulp into fiction: the lump-child and its parents in The King of Tars / Jane Gilbert -- Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Coeur de Lion / Nicola McDonald -- The Siege of Jerusalem and recuperative readings / Elisa Narin Van Court -- Story line and story shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal / Ad Putter -- Temporary virginity and the everyday body: Le Bone Florence of Rome and bourgeois self-making / Felicity Riddy -- Romancing the East: Greeks and Saracens in Guy of Warwick / Rebecca Wilcox.
- ISBN
- 0719063183
- 9780719063183
- 0719063191
- 9780719063190
- 9786610734306
- 6610734305
- LCCN
- 2003068870
- 99808732964
- OCLC
- ocm53896754
- 53896754
- SCSB-14536148
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library