We are all in Dr King's debt for this scholarly, ground-breaking book

English Studies

King concludes by encouraging future readings of The Faerie Queene which consider native romance. His book demonstrates the fruitfulness of such investigations and will certainly inspire further scholarship. I can only hope that whoever continues in King's footsteps will do so with the same amount of sophistication, skill and sensitivity

Notes and Queries

The book is remarkable for its scope and erudition

Notes and Queries

Scholarship on Middle English romance has done little to access the textual and bibliographical continuity of this remarkable literary tradition into the sixteenth century and its impact on Elizabethan works. And to an even greater extent Spenserian scholarship has failed to investigate the significant and complex debts which The Faerie Queene owes to medieval native verse romance and Malorys Le Morte Darthur. This book accordingly offers the first comprehensive study of the impact of Middle English romance on The Faerie Queene. It employs the concept of memory, in which both Middle English romance writers and Spenser show specific interest, to build a sense of the thematic, generic, and cultural complexity of the native romance tradition. The memorial character of Middle English romance resides in its intertextuality and its frequent presentation of its narrative events as historical and consequently the basis for a favourable sense of local or even national identity. Spensers memories of native romance involve a more troubled engagement with that tradition of providential national history as well as an endeavour to see in pre-Reformation romance a prophetic and objective authority for Protestant belief.
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A comprehensive study of the impact of Middle English romance on "The Faerie Queene". It employs the concept of memory, in which both Middle English romance writers and Spenser show specific interest, to build a sense of the thematic, generic and cultural complexity of the native romance tradition.
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1. Approaching Spenser's Medievalism ; 2. Middle English Romance: Tradition, Genre, Manuscripts, and Prints ; 3. The Matter of Just Memory: Providential History in Middle English Romance ; 4. Displaced Youths and Slandered Ladies in Middle English Romance ; 5. Malory's Le Morte Darthur: Remembering Native Romance ; 6. The 'Reformation' of Native Romance in The Faerie Queene, Book I ; 7. 'It seemed another worlde to beholde': Native Romance, History, and Book II of The Faerie Queene ; 8. 'The world runne quite out of square': Remembering/Dismembering Native Romance in Book V ; Conclusion
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Andrew King is Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Dalhousie University, Canada

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198187226
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
432 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
260

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Biografisk notat

Andrew King is Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Dalhousie University, Canada