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The legend of Guy of Warwick
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ISBN: 081532085X 9780415763769 0415763762 9780815320852 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, NY : Garland,

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This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of 'Gui de Warewic,' a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the 'Gesta Romanorum,' andlate medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.

Jacobean city comedy
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ISBN: 0416734502 041673460X 9780416734607 Year: 1980 Volume: 693 Publisher: London

Thomas Hardy, landscapes of the mind
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ISBN: 0333255933 9780333255933 Year: 1979 Publisher: London : Macmillan,


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Insular romance : politics, faith, and culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English literature
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ISBN: 0520054970 Year: 1986 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press


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The idea of landscape and the sense of place 1730-1840 : an approach to the poetry of John Clare
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ISBN: 0521082544 9780521082549 Year: 1972 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

New England literary culture from revolution through renaissance
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ISBN: 0521302064 052137801X 0511570384 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing vocation. He pays particular attention to the major writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe and Dickinson - but surveys them with a number of lesser-known authors, and explores the conventions, values and institutions which affected them all. Some of the main topics covered include the distinctive features of the Early National and Antebellum periods in New England writing; the importance of certain literary genres (poetry, oratory and religious narrative; etc.); the impact of Puritanism and its values; and the invention of acceptable conventions for portraying the New England landscape and institutions in literature.

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