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Introduction Definitions Genre, Mode, Strategy English Only? I. Classical Romance Odyssean Wanderings The Genre of "Greek Romance" Romance or Novel? Some Recent Controversies, and a Larger Map of Romance II. Medieval Romance Courts, Knights, and Clerks Love in the Time of Chivalry Romancing Antiquity Chivalry and Adventure Romance Genres III. Romance in the Renaissance The (Re)invention of Romance Chivalry and its Sequels Romance in the New World Mad for Chivalry Literary Hierarchies and the Shakespearean Fallacy IV. Post-Renaissance Transformations Pastoral Retreat, Heroic Excess, Passionate Pleasure Romance versus Novel Romancing the Gothic Gothic as Genre Romance and Romanticism Romance and "Genre Literature" Select Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Romances History and criticism, Literature, Medieval History and criticism, European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism