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9780415212618

Romance

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415212618

  • ISBN10:

    0415212618

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2004-11-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' throughout literary history and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural theory, such as: *How does the history of 'romance' as a category force us to rethink the historicisation of literary genres? *What definitions can we provide for our own time to help us recognise and analyse new forms of 'romance'? *To what extent is the resistance to romance a resistance to the imaginative force of literature? The case for 'romance' as a concept is presented clearly and imaginatively, arguing that its usefulness to contemporary critics can be maintained if it is regarded as a literary strategy rather than a fixed genre. In encouraging the reader to consider the fluidity of literature, Romance will be ofequal value to all students of historical and comparative literatures and of modern literary forms.

Author Biography

Barbara Fuchs is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
Introduction 1(11)
Definitions
3(1)
Genre, mode, strategy
4(5)
English only?
9(3)
1 Classical Romance 12(25)
Odyssean wanderings
13(9)
The genre of "Greek romance"
22(11)
Romance or novel? Some recent controversies, and a larger map of romance
33(4)
2 Medieval Romance 37(29)
Courts, knights, and clerks
39(3)
Love in the time of chivalry
42(8)
Romancing antiquity
50(5)
Chivalry and adventure
55(2)
Romance genres
57(9)
3 Romance in the Renaissance 66(33)
The (re)invention of romance
66(12)
Chivalry and its sequels
78(3)
Romance in the New World
81(4)
Mad for chivalry
85(8)
Literary hierarchies and the Shakespearean fallacy
93(6)
4 Post-Renaissance Transformations 99(32)
Pastoral retreat, heroic excess, passionate pleasure
100(5)
Romance versus novel
105(12)
Romancing the Gothic
117(2)
Gothic as genre
119(3)
Romance and Romanticism
122(2)
Romance and "genre literature"
124(7)
FURTHER READING 131(2)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 133(9)
INDEX 142

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