Expectations of Romance - 9781843842071

Expectations of RomanceThe Reception of a Genre in Medieval England\nAuthor(s): Melissa Furrow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843842071, 978-1843842071\nSynopsis\nWhat did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.\n\nAn important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance. Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia.\n\nMedieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw \""noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie\"" in romance, or \""drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord\"". This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genrein England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as vali.