Buch, Englisch, 580 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1005 g
From Classical to Contemporary
Buch, Englisch, 580 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1005 g
Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6727-7
Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
The Companion is suitable for general readers and for those beginning their study of literature, as well as for readers seeking more specialized information on the issue of romance or on the individual types of writing, writers, and works considered.
Contributors to this volume:
Elizabeth Archibald, W. R. J. Barron, Derek Brewer, Helen Cooper, Richard Cronin, David Fairer, Robert Fraser, David Fuller, Jerrold E. Hogle, Kathryn Hume, Susan Jones, Andrew King, Edward Larrissy, Richard Mathews, Ulrika Maude, Clare Morgan, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Francis O'Gorman, Michael O'Neill, Leonée Ormond, Lynne Pearce, Fiona Price, Clive Probyn, Fiona Robertson, Andrew Sanders, Corinne Saunders, John Simons, Raymond H. Thompson, Lisa Vargo, Judith Weiss
Zielgruppe
students of English literature or comparative literature, general readers
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Ancient Romance. (Elizabeth Archibald).
2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance. (Judith Weiss).
3. The Popular English Metrical Romances. Derek Brewer (University of Cambridge).
4. Arthurian Romance. (W. R. J. Barron).
5. Chaucer's Romances. (Corinne Saunders).
6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances. (Helen Cooper).
7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England. (Lori Humphrey Newcomb).
8. Sidney and Spenser. (Andrew King).
9. Shakespeare's Romances. (David Fuller).
10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories. (John Simons).
11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-Century Spenserianism. (David Fairer).
12. "Gothic" Romance: Its Origins and Cultural Functions. (Jerrold E. Hogle).
13. Women's Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and the Pleasures of the Form. (Lisa Vargo).
14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Re-reading Eighteenth-Century Romance. (Clive Probyn).
15. "Inconsistent Rhapsodies". Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance. (Fiona Price).
16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott. (Fiona Robertson).
17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats. (Michael O'Neill).
18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson. (Leonée Ormond).
19. Victorian Romance. (Richard Cronin).
20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography. Magaret Oliphant, Edmund Grosse and John Ruskin's 'needle to the north'. (Francis O'Gorman).
21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery. (Andrew Sanders).
22. Nineteenth-Century Adventure and Fantasy. (James Morier, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Fraser).
23. Into the Twentieth-Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard to Buchan. (Susan Jones).
24. America and Romance. (Ulrika Maude).
25. Myth, Legend and Romance in Yeats, Pound and Eliot. (Edward Larrissy).
26. Twentieth-Century Arthurian Romance. (Raymond H. Thompson).
27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century. (Richard Mathews).
28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction. (Kathryn Hume).
29. Between Worlds. Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt and Romance. (Clare Morgan).
30. Popular Romance and its Readers. (Lynne Pearce).
Epilogue: Into the Twenty-First Century. (Corinne J. Saunders).
Index.