Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Furrow, Melissa.
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