Description
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies, and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with social virtues. But the romance in turn exploitedavailable figures of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna Caughey, Laura Ashe
About the Author
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
Reviews
[A] stimulating collection, with articles ranging from discussions of specific poems to the reassessment of entire traditions. Many of the [...] pieces here deserve to become classics in the bibliographies of future work on insular romance. * NOTES & QUERIES *
An extremely useful collection - a significant contribution to the D. S. Brewer series and to the study of medieval romance writ large. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843842125
Author Laura Ashe
Format Hardback
Page Count 202
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
About the Author
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
Reviews
[A] stimulating collection, with articles ranging from discussions of specific poems to the reassessment of entire traditions. Many of the [...] pieces here deserve to become classics in the bibliographies of future work on insular romance. * NOTES & QUERIES *
An extremely useful collection - a significant contribution to the D. S. Brewer series and to the study of medieval romance writ large. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843842125
Author Laura Ashe
Format Hardback
Page Count 202
Imprint D.S. Brewer
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
