1st Edition
The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance
Preface
Notes on references and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lai le Freine: The Female Foundling and the Prolem of Romance Genre
Chapter 2 Lanval to Sir Laurifal: A Story Becomes Popular
Chapter 3 The Tale ef Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
Chhapter 4 The Romance Hypothetical: Lordship and the Saracens in Sir Isumbras
Chapter 5 Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: Sir Degare, 'The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney', and the Folie Tristan d'OxfOrd
Chapter 6 Loving Beasts: The Romance of William ef Paleme
Chapter 7: The Narrative Logic of Emare
Chapter 8 Tiie Seege ef Troye: 'ff or wham was wakened al this wo'?
Chapter 9 Romance and Its Discontents in Eger and Grime
Chapter 10 From Beyond the Grave: Darkness at Noon in Tiie Awnfyrs qff Arthure
Chapter 11 Gender, Oaths and Ambiguity in Sir Tristrem and Beroul's Roman de Tristan
Chapter 12 Sir Difeo: Madness and Gender
bliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Biography
Ad Putter is Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Bristol, and also works for the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bristol. He is author of various books and articles on medieval literature, including An Introduction to the Gawain poet also published by Longman.
Jane Gilbert is Lecturer in French at University College London. She is the author of several articles on medieval French and English romances.
'.....these new essays offer varied and thoughtful approaches to a group of relatively little known romances, and are successful in demonstrating their interest for the literary critic as well as the historian or linguist.' Corinne Saunders, Notes and Queries. 'The book is worth recommending to students as an accessible starting point...' Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester 'The reading of the articles proves in itself to be an entertaining, aesthetically satisfying and scholarly redeeming act and whets the reader's appetitie for the original texts...' - Dr Thomas Honegger, Chair of Medieval Studies, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena.
