The Legend of Guy of Warwick

ISBN-13: 9780815320852 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995

Velma Bourgeois Richmond;Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Opis

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"This book provides a useful collection of information.." -- Ethnologies
"Comprehensive and exhaustive. Velma Richmond is to be commended for completing this large and complex study, and for providing an essential reference for the Guy legend." -- Parergon
"Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -- Choice
"A well written, intelligently illustrated book packed with a great deal of information that offers opportunities to scholars to incorporate hitherto neglected material into their understanding of all English literary periods." -- Medium rvum

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One: Antecedents for Guy’s Legend; Chapter Two: An Anglo-Norman Hero: The First Guy of Warwick; Chapter Three: Guy: A Fourteenth-Century English Hero; Chapter Four: Late Medieval Adaptations and International Repute; Chapter Five: Renaissance Diversity; Chapter Six: Penny Histories and Eighteenth-Century Antiquarians; Chapter Seven: A Story for Children, Satirists, and Visitors to Warwick; Chapter Eight: Apotheosis and Decline in The Twentieth Century

O autorze

Velma Bourgeois Richmond,