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| Author | : Laura Ashe |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2015-09-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0141392886 |
A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and many others, in new translations and with illuminating introductions. Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely disappeared in Europe. In this important and provocative book, Laura Ashe shows how English writers brought it back, composing new tales about King Arthur, his knights and other heroes and heroines in Latin, French and English. Why did fiction disappear, and why did it come to life again to establish itself the dominant form of literature ever since? And what do we even mean by the term 'fiction'? Gathering extracts from the most important texts of the period by Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer and others, this volume offers an absorbing and surprising introduction to the earliest fiction in England. The anthology includes a general introduction by Laura Ashe, introductions to each extract, explanatory notes and other useful editorial materials. All French and Latin texts have been newly translated, while Middle English texts include helpful glosses. Laura Ashe is a University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her first book Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has been followed by numerous articles and edited collections; she is now writing the newOxford English Literary History vol. 1: 1000-1350 (Oxford University Press).
| Author | : Steve Mentz |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780754654698 |
Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.
| Author | : Laura Ashe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2011-03-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521174367 |
The century and a half following the Norman Conquest of 1066 saw an explosion in the writing of Latin and vernacular history in England, while the creation of the romance genre reinvented the fictional narrative. Where critics have seen these developments as part of a cross-Channel phenomenon, Laura Ashe argues that a genuinely distinctive character can be found in the writings of England during the period. Drawing on a wide range of historical, legal and cultural contexts, she discusses how writers addressed the Conquest and rebuilt their sense of identity as a new, united 'English' people, with their own national literature and culture, in a manner which was to influence all subsequent medieval English literature. This study opens up new ways of reading post-Conquest texts in relation to developments in political and legal history, and in terms of their place in the English Middle Ages as a whole.
| Author | : Tim Killick |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2016-05-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317171462 |
In spite of the importance of the idea of the 'tale' within Romantic-era literature, short fiction of the period has received little attention from critics. Contextualizing British short fiction within the broader framework of early nineteenth-century print culture, Tim Killick argues that authors and publishers sought to present short fiction in book-length volumes as a way of competing with the novel as a legitimate and prestigious genre. Beginning with an overview of the development of short fiction through the late eighteenth century and analysis of the publishing conditions for the genre, including its appearance in magazines and annuals, Killick shows how Washington Irving's hugely popular collections set the stage for British writers. Subsequent chapters consider the stories and sketches of writers as diverse as Mary Russell Mitford and James Hogg, as well as didactic short fiction by authors such as Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. His book makes a convincing case for the evolution of short fiction into a self-conscious, intentionally modern form, with its own techniques and imperatives, separate from those of the novel.
| Author | : Sharon Kay Penman |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 784 |
| Release | : 2010-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429939524 |
In When Christ and His Saints Slept master storyteller and historian Sharon Kay Penman illuminates one of the lesser-known but fascinating periods of English history. The next addition in this highly acclaimed historical fiction series of the middle ages, and the first of a trilogy that will tell the story of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. When Christ and His Saints Slept begins with the death of King Henry I, son of William the Conqueror and father of Maude, his only living legitimate offspring.
| Author | : Leah Orr |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2017-10-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813940141 |
The eighteenth century British book trade marks the beginning of the literary marketplace as we know it. The lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695 brought an end to pre-publication censorship of printed texts and restrictions on the number of printers and presses in Britain. Resisting the standard "rise of the novel" paradigm, Novel Ventures incorporates new research about the fiction marketplace to illuminate early fiction as an eighteenth-century reader or writer might have seen it. Through a consideration of all 475 works of fiction printed over the four decades from 1690 to 1730, including new texts, translations of foreign works, and reprints of older fiction, Leah Orr shows that the genre was much more diverse and innovative in this period than is usually thought. Contextual chapters examine topics such as the portrayal of early fiction in literary history, the canonization of fiction, concepts of fiction genres, printers and booksellers, the prices and physical manufacture of books, and advertising strategies to give a more complex picture of the genre in the print culture world of the early eighteenth century. Ultimately, Novel Ventures concludes that publishers had far more influence over what was written, printed, and read than authors did, and that they shaped the development of English fiction at a crucial moment in its literary history.
| Author | : Martin Puchner |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Anthologies |
| ISBN | : 9780393933642 |
| Author | : Anya Seton |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0544222881 |
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
| Author | : Aileen Ribeiro |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 0300109997 |
Relatively few garments survive from before the eighteenth century, and the history of costume in the preceding centuries must therefore rely to a great extent on literary and visual evidence. This book, the first of its kind, examines Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense political, social, and cultural change. Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources--poetry, drama, essays, sermons--the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images, she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how it related to Stuart England’s cultural climate.
| Author | : Barbara Willard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2009-09-01 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9781903252345 |
The War of the Roses is coming to an end, & Cecily Jollond flees for her safety to Mantlemass, deep in the Ashdown Forest in the Sussex Weald. The elegant life Cecily has led in London is transformed as she uncovers the secrets of Mantlemass & the treachery & betrayals of the past which will affect her future, & her choice of husband.
