A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibilities implicit in boundaries - not only the geographical, political and cultural frontiers that medieval romances imagine and imply, but also more metaphorical demarcations. It is these boundaries, as they appear in insular romances circulating in English and French, which the essays in this volume address. They include the boundary between reality and fictionality; boundaries between different literary traditions, modes and cultures; and boundaries between different kinds of experience or perception, especially the "altered states" associated with sickness, magic, the supernatural, or the divine. CONTRIBUTORS: HELEN COOPER, ROSALIND FIELD, MARIANNE AILES, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ELIZABETH BERLINGS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, ARLYN DIAMOND, ROBERT ROUSE, LAURA ASHE, JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, CORINNE SAUNDERS

About the Author
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. JUDITH WEISS is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, UK. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. MARIANNE AILES is Professor of French at the University of Bristol. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading. ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Reviews
[This] compelling volume will be of lasting value both to existing experts and to those newer to the medieval romance genre: it is a strong, well-balanced, well-edited, and fluently written selection, and should become a mainstay work of reference for future scholarship. * ENGLISH *
The contributions [...] represent solid and provocative readings of both frequently studied and much neglected romances. [...] This volume represents an important contribution to medieval romance studies. As a successful collection of essays should do, it presents a lively, exciting conversation among some of the foremost scholars in the discipline. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH & GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
There is enough substantial work here, investigating a wide range of subtypes of romance, to make a significant contribution to the study of Insular, non-Arthurian romance. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW, *



Book Information
ISBN 9781843841555
Author Professor Neil M.R. Cartlidge
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 480g