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In his Introduction, Herschel Baker writes, Although Romance, the dominant genre of secular literature throughout the later Middle Ages, has prompted floods of scholarship and speculation, it still bristles with unanswered problems of origin, development, and even definition.Helaine Newstead contributes Malory and Romance; A. Bartlett Giamatti, Spenser: From Magic to Miracle; Norman Rabkin, The Holy Sinner and the Confidence Man: Illusion in Shakespeare's Romances; and Barbara K. Lewalski, Milton: Revaluations of Romance.

Four Essays on Romance

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1971
      ISBN13: 9780674314757, 978-0674314757
      ISBN10: 0674314751

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      Book Synopsis
      In his Introduction, Herschel Baker writes, Although Romance, the dominant genre of secular literature throughout the later Middle Ages, has prompted floods of scholarship and speculation, it still bristles with unanswered problems of origin, development, and even definition.Helaine Newstead contributes Malory and Romance; A. Bartlett Giamatti, Spenser: From Magic to Miracle; Norman Rabkin, The Holy Sinner and the Confidence Man: Illusion in Shakespeare's Romances; and Barbara K. Lewalski, Milton: Revaluations of Romance.

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