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Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

Furrow, Melissa

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval Romance, Book 11

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1843842076
ISBN13: 9781843842071
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 19 2009
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.

An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance. Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia.

Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie in romance, or drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord. This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genrein England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks.

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