A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary by Saunders, Corinne

A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631232711)

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A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary by Saunders, Corinne

A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary

$262.95
A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary by Saunders, Corinne

A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary

$262.95
Format: Hardcover
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Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages.

  • Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day
  • Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers
  • Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres
  • Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist
  • Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples


Author: Corinne Saunders
ISBN-10: 0631232710
ISBN-13: 9780631232711
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2004
Pages: 584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 9.82h x 7.06w x 1.90d
By Corinne Saunders
By Corinne Saunders
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Corinne Saunders is a Reader in Medieval Literature at the University of Durham. Her previous publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance (1993), Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001) and Chaucer (2001) in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series.

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