Romance and history : imagining time from the medieval to the early modern period

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Label

Romance and history : imagining time from the medieval to the early modern period

Title remainder

imagining time from the medieval to the early modern period

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jon Whitman

Title variation

Imagining time from the medieval to the early modern period

Contributor

• Whitman, Jon, 1949-

Editor

• Whitman, Jon, 1949-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Europe
• European literature
• European literature -- History and criticism
• History in literature
• History in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
• Literature and history
• Literature and history -- Europe
• Romanticism
• Romanticism
• Time in literature
• Time in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 92

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

809/.9145

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN56.R7

LC item number

R623 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Series volume

92