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  1. Chivalry and romance in the English Renaissance
    Author: Davis, Alex
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding... more

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    'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. Received wisdom has it that both chivalric culture and the literature of chivalry - romances - were obsolete by the time of the Renaissance, an understanding epitomised by the figure of Don Quixote, the reader of chivalric fictions whose risible literary tastes render him absurd. By way of contrast, this study finds evidence for the continued vitality and relevance of chivalric values at all levels of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century society, from the court entertainments of Elizabeth I to the civic culture of London merchants and artisans. At the same time, it charts the process by which, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chivalric has been firstly exclusively identified with the medieval and then transformed into a virtual shorthand for 'pastness' generally. ALEX DAVIS is lecturer in English, University of St Andrews

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846150395
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; Chivalry in literature; Literature and history / England / History / 16th century; Literature and history / England / History / 17th century; Medievalism / England / History / 16th century; Medievalism / England / History / 17th century; Romances, English / History and criticism; Knights and knighthood in literature; Middle Ages in literature; Renaissance / England; Literatur; Englisch; Ritter <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (263 pages)
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    Ch. 1 'Not Knowing Their Parents': Reading Chivalric Romance -- Ch. 2 The Progress of Romance (I): Kenilworth, 1575 -- Ch. 3 Castles in the Air: Quixotic Representations on the Seventeenth-Century Stage -- Ch. 4 'Gentleman-Like Adventure': Duelling in the 'Life' of Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Ch. 5 'The Lady Errant': Katherine Philips as Reader of Romance -- Ch. 6 The Progress of Romance (II): Kenilworth, Chivalry, and the Middle Ages -- Conclusion: 'The Chronicle of Wasted Time'
  2. Chivalry and romance in the English Renaissance
    Author: Davis, Alex
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. Received wisdom has it that both chivalric culture and the literature of chivalry - romances - were obsolete by the time of the Renaissance, an understanding epitomised by the figure of Don Quixote, the reader of chivalric fictions whose risible literary tastes render him absurd. By way of contrast, this study finds evidence for the continued vitality and relevance of chivalric values at all levels of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century society, from the court entertainments of Elizabeth I to the civic culture of London merchants and artisans. At the same time, it charts the process by which, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chivalric has been firstly exclusively identified with the medieval and then transformed into a virtual shorthand for 'pastness' generally. ALEX DAVIS is lecturer in English, University of St Andrews

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846150395
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; Chivalry in literature; Literature and history / England / History / 16th century; Literature and history / England / History / 17th century; Medievalism / England / History / 16th century; Medievalism / England / History / 17th century; Romances, English / History and criticism; Knights and knighthood in literature; Middle Ages in literature; Renaissance / England; Ritter <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (263 pages)
    Notes:

    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)

    Ch. 1 'Not Knowing Their Parents': Reading Chivalric Romance -- Ch. 2 The Progress of Romance (I): Kenilworth, 1575 -- Ch. 3 Castles in the Air: Quixotic Representations on the Seventeenth-Century Stage -- Ch. 4 'Gentleman-Like Adventure': Duelling in the 'Life' of Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Ch. 5 'The Lady Errant': Katherine Philips as Reader of Romance -- Ch. 6 The Progress of Romance (II): Kenilworth, Chivalry, and the Middle Ages -- Conclusion: 'The Chronicle of Wasted Time'
  3. The romance of the New World
    gender and the literary formations of English colonialism
    Author: Linton, Joan Pong
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent... more

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    This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined patriarchy converged with the motives of an expansionist economy. Joan Pong Linton argues that the emergent romance figure of the husband (subsuming the roles of soldier and merchant) embodies the ideal of productive masculinity with which Englishmen defined their identity in America, justifying their activities of piracy, trade and settlement. At the same time, colonial narratives, in putting this masculinity to the test, often contradict and raise doubts about the ideal, and these doubts prompt individual romances to a self-conscious reflection on English cultural assumptions and colonial motives. Hence colonial experience reveals not just the 'romance of empire' but also the impact of the New World on English identity

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511582691
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    RVK Categories: HI 1161 ; HI 1289 ; HR 1611
    Series: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 27
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; English literature / American influences; Literature and history / England / History / 16th century; Literature and history / England / History / 17th century; National characteristics, English, in literature; Masculinity in literature; Gender identity in literature; Colonies in literature; Sex role in literature; Men in literature; Entdeckung; Literatur; Amerika <Motiv>; Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Englisch; Romance
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)
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    Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire -- Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in lodge's A Margarite of America (1596) -- Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood -- Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism -- Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption -- Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida -- The Tempest, "rape," the art and smart of Virginian husbandry -- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas