Romancing the Past

Romancing the Past

Author: Gabrielle M. Spiegel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0520915569

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In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have


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Download or read book Romancing the Past written by Gabrielle M. Spiegel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have


Romancing the Past

Romancing the Past

Author: Jackie Barbosa

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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2100 pages of Swoony Historical Romance, featuring USA Today Bestselling author Darcy Burke. Tropes include: friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, fake relationship, marriage of convenience, and second chance. A Duke is Never Enough - Darcy BurkeSparks fly between a seductive rake and a self-declared spinster spitfire. When he's suspected of murder, she may be his only hope for salvation--and love. The Lover's Knot - Erin SatieWhen the new Duke of Clive realizes that the suicide note written by his predecessor is a forgery, he suspects his ex-fiancée of foul play. As he investigates, he can't decide if he wants to bring her to justice or rekindle the great love of his life. Dealing with the Viscount - Clair BrettHe seized a second chance to seduce the wife he thought dead . . . and claim the secret child he did not know was his. What If I Still Loved You - Erica TaylorAfter a chance meeting, Henry and Anna search the castle for a box of letters, but can this star-crossed pair find their way back to each other? Or will their second chance be lost to fate, again? The Lost Lord - Carrie LomaxA mysterious English nobleman, Lord Richard Northcote, has Miriam dreaming of adventures beyond her limited experiences. But is the promise in his kiss only a practiced lie? An Earl For Ellen - Catherine BilsonOrphaned and penniless, Ellen Bentley is astonished and relieved when the new Earl of Havers, her distant cousin, takes an interest in her welfare. She can't help falling in love with Thomas, but how can she compete with the beautiful, polished Lady Louisa? The Spy's Fake Bride - Jackie BarbosaTo escape Napoleon's France, British agent Thomas Pearce and the woman he's been sent to rescue, Sabine Rousseau, must pretend to be amorous newlyweds. But it isn't long before neither of them is pretending and every night, there's only one bed. Not Quite a Rogue - Tanya Wilde A man on the edge of ruin... A lady who thirsts to be loved for more than her dowry... Temptation has never tasted this rich. Hotel Oriente - Jennifer HallockCub reporter Della will do anything to get her story. When her breadcrumb trail of scandal leads straight to the kitchen of Moss's floundering hotel, can he win Della's heart and keep his name out of the headlines? Once a Fallen Lady - Eve PendleHandsome schoolteacher Alfred Lowe's disapproving gaze makes Lydia Taylor fear for her subterfuge of respectable widow and capable mother. But a seduction of kisses, books, and savory pies will tempt her to risk everything for love. 10 historical romances in one bargain, limited time only, anthology.


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Download or read book Romancing the Past written by Jackie Barbosa and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2100 pages of Swoony Historical Romance, featuring USA Today Bestselling author Darcy Burke. Tropes include: friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, fake relationship, marriage of convenience, and second chance. A Duke is Never Enough - Darcy BurkeSparks fly between a seductive rake and a self-declared spinster spitfire. When he's suspected of murder, she may be his only hope for salvation--and love. The Lover's Knot - Erin SatieWhen the new Duke of Clive realizes that the suicide note written by his predecessor is a forgery, he suspects his ex-fiancée of foul play. As he investigates, he can't decide if he wants to bring her to justice or rekindle the great love of his life. Dealing with the Viscount - Clair BrettHe seized a second chance to seduce the wife he thought dead . . . and claim the secret child he did not know was his. What If I Still Loved You - Erica TaylorAfter a chance meeting, Henry and Anna search the castle for a box of letters, but can this star-crossed pair find their way back to each other? Or will their second chance be lost to fate, again? The Lost Lord - Carrie LomaxA mysterious English nobleman, Lord Richard Northcote, has Miriam dreaming of adventures beyond her limited experiences. But is the promise in his kiss only a practiced lie? An Earl For Ellen - Catherine BilsonOrphaned and penniless, Ellen Bentley is astonished and relieved when the new Earl of Havers, her distant cousin, takes an interest in her welfare. She can't help falling in love with Thomas, but how can she compete with the beautiful, polished Lady Louisa? The Spy's Fake Bride - Jackie BarbosaTo escape Napoleon's France, British agent Thomas Pearce and the woman he's been sent to rescue, Sabine Rousseau, must pretend to be amorous newlyweds. But it isn't long before neither of them is pretending and every night, there's only one bed. Not Quite a Rogue - Tanya Wilde A man on the edge of ruin... A lady who thirsts to be loved for more than her dowry... Temptation has never tasted this rich. Hotel Oriente - Jennifer HallockCub reporter Della will do anything to get her story. When her breadcrumb trail of scandal leads straight to the kitchen of Moss's floundering hotel, can he win Della's heart and keep his name out of the headlines? Once a Fallen Lady - Eve PendleHandsome schoolteacher Alfred Lowe's disapproving gaze makes Lydia Taylor fear for her subterfuge of respectable widow and capable mother. But a seduction of kisses, books, and savory pies will tempt her to risk everything for love. 10 historical romances in one bargain, limited time only, anthology.


Romancing the Postmodern

Romancing the Postmodern

Author: Diane Elam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1000639339

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By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature’s most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.


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Download or read book Romancing the Postmodern written by Diane Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature’s most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history. Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism’s divided relation to modernism and romance’s difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.


A Lover's Quarrel with the Past

A Lover's Quarrel with the Past

Author: Ranjan Ghosh

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0857454854

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Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive ‘linguistic’ turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.


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Download or read book A Lover's Quarrel with the Past written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive ‘linguistic’ turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.


Between History and Romance

Between History and Romance

Author: Gifra-Adroher, Pere

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780838638484

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It demonstrates that, even though Washington Irving's sojourn in Spain from 1826 until 1829 marked a distinct shift in the literary commodification of things Spanish, the transition from an enlightened to a romantic representation of Spain was a process triggered by a group of writers who produced Spanish travel narratives of lasting influence.


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Download or read book Between History and Romance written by Gifra-Adroher, Pere and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It demonstrates that, even though Washington Irving's sojourn in Spain from 1826 until 1829 marked a distinct shift in the literary commodification of things Spanish, the transition from an enlightened to a romantic representation of Spain was a process triggered by a group of writers who produced Spanish travel narratives of lasting influence.


Dreams of the past

Dreams of the past

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1868

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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Handbook of Arthurian Romance

Handbook of Arthurian Romance

Author: Leah Tether

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 311043248X

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The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.


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Download or read book Handbook of Arthurian Romance written by Leah Tether and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.


The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres

The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres

Author: Lambert of Ardres

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0812200543

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The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, a work made famous by Georges Duby, now appears in an expert translation by Leah Shopkow. Consisting of 154 surviving chapters, Lambert's chronicle is just one of many local genealogies produced in Flanders during the high Middle Ages. It is extraordinarily rich and idiosyncratic, however, in its treatment of two competing families, longtime rivals until they were joined by marriage in the mid-twelfth century. In the first 96 chapters, Lambert, priest of the church of Ardres, traces the lineage of the counts of Guines from the seventh century to his present. Suddenly, narrative control seems to be wrested away by the garrulous Walter LeClud, illegitimate son of Baldwin of Ardres, who tells the history of the other family for the next 50 chapters. At that point, Lambert's voice is finally restored, with an account of the now combined holdings of Guines and Ardres. With two storytellers recounting some of the same events from different perspectives, The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres is a particularly useful source for probing the medieval aristocratic family and aristocratic attitudes. Shopkow brings Lambert's chronicle to life in an accurate, lively translation and provides relevant historical and historiographical information in her extensive introduction and explanatory notes to the text.


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Download or read book The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres written by Lambert of Ardres and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres, a work made famous by Georges Duby, now appears in an expert translation by Leah Shopkow. Consisting of 154 surviving chapters, Lambert's chronicle is just one of many local genealogies produced in Flanders during the high Middle Ages. It is extraordinarily rich and idiosyncratic, however, in its treatment of two competing families, longtime rivals until they were joined by marriage in the mid-twelfth century. In the first 96 chapters, Lambert, priest of the church of Ardres, traces the lineage of the counts of Guines from the seventh century to his present. Suddenly, narrative control seems to be wrested away by the garrulous Walter LeClud, illegitimate son of Baldwin of Ardres, who tells the history of the other family for the next 50 chapters. At that point, Lambert's voice is finally restored, with an account of the now combined holdings of Guines and Ardres. With two storytellers recounting some of the same events from different perspectives, The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres is a particularly useful source for probing the medieval aristocratic family and aristocratic attitudes. Shopkow brings Lambert's chronicle to life in an accurate, lively translation and provides relevant historical and historiographical information in her extensive introduction and explanatory notes to the text.


Romantic Medievalism

Romantic Medievalism

Author: E. Fay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-12-17

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1403913617

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Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe , but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. These poets identified with the troubadour of courtly love, a disempowered figure often politically at odds with the establishment figure of the knight.


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Download or read book Romantic Medievalism written by E. Fay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe , but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. These poets identified with the troubadour of courtly love, a disempowered figure often politically at odds with the establishment figure of the knight.


Thinking Medieval Romance

Thinking Medieval Romance

Author: Katherine C. Little

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0192514350

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Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.


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Download or read book Thinking Medieval Romance written by Katherine C. Little and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an idealized fantasy of chivalry and hierarchy, and also for our understanding of romances, as always already archaic, part of a half-forgotten past. And yet, romances were one of the most influential and long-lasting innovations of the medieval period. To emphasize their novelty is to see the resources medieval people had for thinking about their contemporary concern and controversies, whether social order, Jewish/ Christian relations, the Crusades, the connectivity of the Mediterranean, women's roles as mothers, and how to write a national past. This volume takes up the challenge to 'think romance', investigating the various ways that romances imagine, reflect, and describe the challenges of the medieval world.