| Description |
xix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index. |
| Contents |
The shape of romance in medieval France / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- Marvels of translation and crises of transition in the romances of Antiquity / Christopher Baswell -- Romance and other genres / Simon Gaunt -- The manuscript context of medieval romance / Sylvia Huot -- Courts, clerks, and courtly love / Sarah Kay -- The societal role of chivalry in romance : northwestern Europe / Richard Kaeuper -- The other worlds of romance / Jeff Rider -- Questions of gender in Old French courtly romance / Roberta L. Krueger -- Women and men in late medieval English romance / Sheila Fisher -- The evolution and legacy of French prose romance / Norris J. Lacy -- Medieval German romance / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Chivalry and medieval Italian romance / F. Regina Psaki -- Gawain and popular chivalric romance in Britain / Thomas Hahn -- Middle English romance : family, marriage, intimacy / Felicity Riddy -- Romance at the crossroads : medieval Spanish paradigms and Cervantine revisions / Marina S. Brownlee. |
| Subject |
Romances -- History and criticism.
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Romances. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
| Added Author |
Krueger, Roberta L.
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| Added Title |
Medieval romance |
| ISBN |
0521556872 paperback |
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0521553423 |
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