Romance and History
Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
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- Editor: Jon Whitman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Date Published: January 2015
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107042780
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To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly explored in the expansive literary genre of romance. This collective study, edited by Jon Whitman, is the first systematic investigation of that formative process during more than four hundred years. While concentrating on changing configurations of romance itself, the volume examines a number of important related reference points, from epic to chronicle to critical theory. Recalling but qualifying conventional approaches to the three 'matters' of Rome, Britain, and France, the far-reaching inquiry engages major works in a variety of idioms, including Latin, French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. With contributions from a range of internationally distinguished scholars, this unique volume offers a carefully coordinated framework for enriching not only the reading of romance, but also the understanding of changing attitudes toward the temporal process at large.
Read more- Investigates closely the interplay between approaches to romance and attitudes toward time and history
- Presents detailed and interdisciplinary analyses of influential narratives from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries
- Includes important essays by eminent senior scholars from a wide span of European traditions
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'This book is a comprehensive compilation of resources, dates, names, titles, and a deep literary analysis … I believe this is essential reading for those interested in the representation of history in the past, and a excellent resource for Medieval and Early Modern experts.' Angela P. Pacheco, BSLS Reviews
See more reviews'This is a fascinating and very informative collection of essays, which succeeds admirably in collectively breaking some new ground in the exploration of topics and texts that are otherwise covered extensively in their respective fields of study.' Raluca Radulescu, Journal of Literature and History
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- Date Published: January 2015
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107042780
- length: 338 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Opening Perspectives:
1. Romance and history: designing the times Jon Whitman
Part II. The Matter of Rome (and Realms to the East): Approaches to Antiquity:
2. Fearful histories: the past contained in the romances of antiquity Christopher Baswell
3. Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains Catherine Croizy-Naquet
Part III. The Matter of Britain: Social and Spiritual Drives:
4. Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Robert W. Hanning
5. Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: history, genealogy, and fiction in the Tristan and Parzival romances Adrian Stevens
6. Fictional history as ideology: functions of the grail legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest Friedrich Wolfzettel
7. The prose Brut, Hardyng's Chronicle, and the alliterative Morte Arthure: the end of the story Edward Donald Kennedy
8. Arthur in transition: Malory's Morte Darthur Helen Cooper
Part IV. The Matters of France and Italy: Acts of Recollection and Invention:
9. The Chanson de geste as a construction of memory Jean-Pierre Martin
10. Ruggiero's story: the making of a dynastic hero Riccardo Bruscagli
11. Temporality and narrative structure in European romance from the late fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century Marco Praloran
Part V. Matters of Fabulation and Fact: Shifting Registers:
12. The disparagement of chivalric romance for its lack of historicity in sixteenth-century Italian poetics Daniel Javitch
13. Romance and history in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata David Quint
14. The thinking of history in Spenserian romance Gordon Teskey
15. La Cava: romance and history in Corral and Cervantes Marina S. Brownlee
Part VI. Closing Reference Points:
16. Afterword and afterward: romance, history, time Jon Whitman
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