Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

Author / Editor
Furrow, Melissa.

Title
Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

Published
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009.

Physical Description
viii, 264 pp.

Description
Setting out to establish what medieval readers thought about romances and what they labeled romances, Furrow concentrates on a wide range of romances from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Her discussion of romance and truth includes analysis of FranT as a reflection of Chaucer's concern with reader reception of romance. Particularly if FranT is read without irony, it "undercuts happy adherence to the genre's expectations" and may even be seen as "an attack on belief in the truth of romances" (208).

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale