Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance
May 2020
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Dramatising Heliodorus
November 2017
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Timely Voices: Romance Writing in English Literature
Chivalric Romance and Novella Collections
October 2017
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750
Admirable Inventions: Francis Kirkman and the Translation of Romance in the 1650s
June 2016
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Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission
The Shapes of Romance in the Renaissance
June 2016
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Internet publication
<p>The early modern period is often characterized as a time of energetic reshapings in literature, religion, and culture. Starting from the premise that the interrogation and reshaping of human subjects is also one of the key enterprises of late medieval and early modern romance, this article analyzes what Caxton might have meant in ascribing “humanyté” to Malory’sMorte Darthurand considers some of the re-formations practised on human “shapes,” or bodies, in Sidney’sArcadiaand Lodge’sRosalynd. It argues that romance’s exploration of the human, particularly the malleability of body and mind, facilitates the transformation of its own generic “shape.”</p>
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Romance
May 2016
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Prose Romance
September 2015
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Volume 2: 1558-1660
This second volume, and third to appear in the series, covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major,and many of the minor, writers of the ...
Samuel Johnson: Journey into Words
January 2014
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Samuel Johnson: New Contexts For a New Century
Barclay's Argenis and Amadis de Gaule
January 2013
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose
"Gathering Fruit": The "Profitable" Translations of Thomas Paynell
January 2012
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Tudor Translation
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
January 2011
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Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible
January 2011
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The Eastern Mediterranean in the Amadis Cycle, Book V
January 2011
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Journal article
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Yearbook of English Studies
Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception
November 2010
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Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception
Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked.
Fiction, Latin, Poetry, Career, Horace
An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia
November 2010
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Classical Literary Careers and Their Reception
Virgil created the ideal poetic career, an upwards progression within the range of hexameter poetry, pastoral to didactic to epic. He marked this movement in ways obvious and less obvious: he gets up from the shepherd's sitting position at the close of the Eclogues; at the end of the second Georgic he regrets both the loss of pastoral innocence and his inability to write Lucretian natural philosophy; at the start of the third Georgic he looks ahead to an Augustan epic of sacred importance; in each work he presents an emblematic vision of the nymph Arethusa. Subsequently Ovid produces his own more ambitious versions of the ideal career, going from love elegy to tragedy to the universal epic of the Metamorphoses, and within elegy itself advancing from personal love elegy through the didactic of the Ars to the sacred and aetiological narratives of the Fasti. Each cycle then returns to the personal elegy of lamentation in the Tristia; but even in exile Ovid expands his range with the curse poem Ibis, and more letters.
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What of Propertius, Ovid's predecessor as love elegist? Does he show a similar reaction to the Virgilian pattern? Ovid's poetry repeatedly builds on Propertian models, and there is a temptation to see the elegiac books as describing a similar arc to that from the Amores to the Ars and the Fasti, with the personal material of Books 1 and 2 opening out to more general material, discursive and moral in 3, aetiological in 4.
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Ancient and Modern Romance
January 2010
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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Voume II: 1550-1660
Romance
January 2010
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A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature
Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadias
January 2009
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The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603
A Tale of Two Bibles: King James and Geneva after 1611