From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis - an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones - English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing. Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read and interpret this ever-changing form. Addressing the various ways in which romance has absorbed and been absorbed by drama, prose, and poetry, contributors to this volume demonstrate that romance texts do not produce something defined or confined by a static genre, but rather express a repository of creative possibilities. Covering writers including the anonymous author of Sir Orfeo, Jane Austen, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lucy Hutchinson, William Morris, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and Edmund Spenser, essays explore the magic and wonder of romance, Irish and Gaelic lore, how woodcuts in early books complement and extend printed text, how romance was dramatized, how it gives language to feminist politics and ideology, and how it becomes a counterpoint to finance in the fiction of the early Romantic period. A nuanced reinterpretation of romance in its own terms, Timely Voices inspires new appreciation of this form as a solution to textual, aesthetic, structural, ideological, and political problems in literature.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Timely Voices 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction: Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature 14
- PART ONE Narration and Transformation 48
- 1 The Knight and the Hermit: Crossing the Reformation 50
- 2 Straggling Plots: Spenser’s Digressive Inventions in The Faerie Queene 71
- 3 Milton and the Resource of Romance 99
- PART TWO Magic and Wonder 122
- 4 Malory, Merlin, and the Contrivances of “a Devyls Son” 124
- 5 Ireland, Wales, and Faerie: The Otherworld of Romance and the Celtic Literatures 151
- 6 Instances of the Everyday: Romance beyond Wonder 170
- PART THREE Reformation and Mediation 192
- 7 The “Romance” of Nostalgia in Some Early Medieval Irish Stories 194
- 8 Uncanny Romance: William Morris and David Jones 210
- PART FOUR Transmission and Circulation 230
- 9 Dramatizing Heliodorus 232
- 10 Pericles and Polygenres 249
- 11 Anthony Munday’s Zelauto: Illustration and Reading in the Later Elizabethan Romance 268
- PART FIVE Aesthetics and the Politics of Form 290
- 12 Pamela’s Purse: The Price of Romance in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia 292
- 13 “Romancy-Ladies”: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Romance in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Writing by Women 310
- 14 “The Visions of Romance Were Over”: Recollections of a Golden Past in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey 328
- Afterword 350
- Contributors 362
- Index 368
