Corinne Saunders 
A Companion to Romance [PDF ebook] 
From Classical to Contemporary

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

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List of Illustrations viii

Acknowledgments ix

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction 1

1. Ancient Romance 10

Elizabeth Archibald

2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance 26

Judith Weiss

3. The Popular English Metrical Romances 45

Derek Brewer

4. Arthurian Romance 65

W. R. J. Barron

5. Chaucer’s Romances 85

Corinne Saunders

6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances 104

Helen Cooper

7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England 121

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

8. Sidney and Spenser 140

Andrew King

9. Shakespeare’s Romances 160

David Fuller

10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories 177

John Simons

11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism
197

David Fairer

12. ”Gothic” Romance: Its Origins and
Cultural Functions 216

Jerrold E. Hogle

13. Women’s Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and the
Pleasures of the Form 233

Lisa Vargo

14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-century
Romance 251

Clive Probyn

15. ”Inconsistent Rhapsodies”: Samuel
Richardson and the Politics of Romance 269

Fiona Price

16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott 287

Fiona Robertson

17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats 305

Michael O’Neill

18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson 321

Leonée Ormond

19. Victorian Romance: Medievalism 341

Richard Cronin

20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant,
Edmund Gosse, and John Ruskin’s ”needle to the
north” 360

Francis O’Gorman

21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery 375

Andrew Sanders

22. Nineteenth-century Adventure and Fantasy: James Morier,
George Meredith, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson
389

Robert Fraser

23. Into the Twentieth Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard to
Buchan 406

Susan Jones

24. America and Romance 424

Ulrika Maude

25. Myth, Legend, and Romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot
438

Edward Larrissy

26. Twentieth-century Arthurian Romance 454

Raymond H. Thompson

27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century 472

Richard Mathews

28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction 488

Kathryn Hume

29. Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance
502

Clare Morgan

30. Popular Romance and its Readers 521

Lynne Pearce

Epilogue: Into the Twenty-first Century 539

Corinne Saunders

Index 542

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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.