Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination and the Modern World.

Author / Editor
Richmond, Andrew M.

Title
Landscape in Middle English Romance: The Medieval Imagination and the Modern World.

Published
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Physical Description
ix, 287 pp.

Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 116.

Description
Studies "ways in which medieval British romances conceived of ecological contexts" and identifies a "range of economic, religious, and social values attached to landscape"--hills and mines; seashores and beaches; and foreign, domestic, and fantastic territories--in a wide variety of popular romances and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Includes ecocritical comments on the "seashore as a space for play and false narrative" in FranT and a space of economic possibility and exploitation in MLT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Man of Law and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale