Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period

ISBN-13: 9781107665255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 329 str.

Jon Whitman

Opis

A wide-ranging account of the relationship between romance and history from the medieval to the early modern period.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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; Select bibliography.