{"product_id":"expectations-of-romance-9781843842071","title":"Expectations of Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical\/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance. Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw \"noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie\" in romance, or \"drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord\". This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genrein England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks.\u003cbr\u003e Working from what was central to medieval readers' concept of the genre from the twelfth century onward, the book sees the changing linguistic, literary, religious and political contexts through such heterogeneous lenses as Denis Piramus, Robert Manning, and Walter Map; \u003ci\u003eGuy of Warwick\u003c\/i\u003e and Guenevere; \u003ci\u003echansons de geste\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efabliaux\u003c\/i\u003e; Tristram and Isolde and John Gower's uses of the pair as exemplary; Geoffrey Chaucer as reader and writer ofromance; and the Lollards, clergy, and didacts of the fifteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  MELISSA FURROW  is Professor of English at Dalhousie University.","brand":"Melissa Furrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280225317115,"sku":"9781843842071","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843842071.jpg?v=1772487503","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/expectations-of-romance-9781843842071","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}