1st Edition

The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

By Dieter Mehl Copyright 2011
312 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle english Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form... Read more
1. Introduction: The Middle English Romances  2. The Problem of Classification  3. The Shorter Romances (I)  4. The Shorter Romances (II)  5. Homiletic Romances  6. The Longer Romances  7. Novels in Verse

Biography

Mehl Dieter