Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance.
- Author / Editor
- Ensley, Mimi.
Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Physical Description
- ix, 242 pp.; 5 b&w illus.
- Series
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Description
- Studies post-Reformation understandings and treatments of romance--a "fluid" genre--for the ways they disclose "subtle continuity" across the traditional divide between medieval and Renaissance. Focuses on resistance to erasure of the genre, analyzing the presence and roles of romance in catalogues, collections or collages, literary monumentalization, and metaphoric museums of memory. Comments on spurious attributions to Chaucer and investigates aspects of Edmund Spenser's and John Lane's monumentalization/laureation of their predecessor in continuations of SqT and elsewhere.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Squire and His Tale
Chaucerian Apocrypha