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Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)


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What happened to the medieval romance genre during and after the Protestant Reformation in England? Who read these works; who printed them; and what did they mean to the varied audiences encountering them? Through a cross-temporal study using book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, this book argues that the medieval romances printed across the early modern period provided a flexible space for post-Reformation readers to negotiate their relationships with the recent 'medieval' past, a past that was becoming, for some, increasingly distanced from the present. In exploring the complex entanglements of time and technology that accrue on the pages of the post-Reformation romance book, Difficult Pasts offers an interdisciplinary framework for better understanding the role of physical books and imaginative forms in grappling with a 'difficult' past.



Table of Contents:

Introduction: Palimpsests: Reformation, romance and erasure
1 Catalogues: Sammelbände, libraries and defining the romance genre
2 Collage: A recusant’s romance connection to the past
3 Monuments: Reviving and restoring Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale
4 Museums: Temporality and timelessness in artefacts, relics and romance
Conclusion: Palimpsests and gaps

Index



About the Author :

Mimi Ensley is an Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College



Review :

'Difficult Pasts as a whole is an impressive feat of construction, managing as it does to balance critical and cultural analysis, to sort its selection of texts into deftly differentiated ways of accommodating the past, and to offer succinct but detailed accounts of the manuscripts and printed books with which it is concerned... its breadth of reference, and its ability to speak to a number of different interests, make it satisfyingly varied and thought-provoking.'
SELIM Journal

'Difficult Pasts is a thoughtful and engaging addition to Early Modern scholarship on memory, history, and romance... should be considered a valuable resource for all Early Modern scholars and researchers interested in the connections between literature, cultural change, and cultural memory.'
Journal of English and German Philology


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781526157898
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 504 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1526157896
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
  • Sub Title: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance
  • Width: 138 mm


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