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Pulp Fictions of Medieval England Nicola McDonald

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England By Nicola McDonald

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England by Nicola McDonald


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Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England Summary

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance by Nicola McDonald

Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.

About Nicola McDonald

Nicola McDonald is Lecturer in English and Medieval Studies at the University of York

Table of Contents

Introduction - Nicola McDonald
1. Incorporation in the 'Siege of Melayne' - Suzanne Conklin Akbari
2. The twin demons of aristocratic society in 'Sir Gowther' - Alcuin Blamires
3. A, A and B: Coding same-sex union in 'Amis and Amiloun' - Sheila Delany
4. 'Sir Degrevant': What lovers want - Arlyn Diamond
5. Putting the pulp into fiction: The lump-child and its parents in 'The King of Tars' - Jane Gilbert
6. Eating people and the alimentary logic of 'Richard Coeur de Lion' - Nicola McDonald
7. 'The Siege of Jerusalem' and recuperative readings - Elisa Narin Van Court
8. Story line and story shape in 'Sir Percyvell of Gales Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal' - Ad Putter
9. Temporary virginity and the everyday body: 'Le Bone Florence of Rome' and bourgeois self-making' - Felicity Riddy
10. Romancing the East: Greeks and Saracens in 'Guy of Warwick' - Rebecca Wilcox

Additional information

NLS9780719063190
9780719063190
0719063191
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance by Nicola McDonald
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2004-07-15
256
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