Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Purdie, Rhiannon.
Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xi, 272 pp. 9 b&w illus.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval Romance.
- Description
- Purdie explores "how and why" tail-rhyme romance developed in Middle English and defines the "temporal and geographical limits" of the subgenre. The book includes a version of Purdie's "The Implications of Manuscript Layout in Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas" (2005; SAC 29 [2007], no. 244).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas