Guy of Warwick

by J. Simons (Editor)

Overview

A collection of six stories, popular in pre-industrial England, and all of which derive from tales of chivalric love and courtly adventure current in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The romances are Guy of Warwick (two versions, prose and verse), The Seven Champions of Christendom, Parismus, Valentine and Orson, and The Seven Wise Masters of Rome. A valuable volume for students of popular literature and the reception of medieval tales. With full introduction and notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859894456
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
Edition description:	1
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Simons is Head of the School of Humanities and Arts at Edge Hill University.

Table of Contents

Contents
Guy of Warwick (prose)
Guy of Warwick (verse)
The Seven Champions of Christendome
Parismus
Valentine and Orson
The Seven Wise Masters of Rome

Editorial Reviews

John Simons's edited collection of eighteenth-century chapbooks seeks to provide an insight into the reading habits of the pre-industrial rural and urban poor. . . In keeping with his expressed intention of replicating as closely as possible the original reading experience, Simons pursues a non-interventionist editorial policy retaining all misprints. . . Throughout his introduction and notes, Simons highlights the way in which the chapbooks perpetuated the motifs and concerns of medieval and Renaissance chivalric romance, whilst adapting the narratives for an eighteenth-century and non-élite readership.” –Notes and Queries, Volume 46, Number 4, December 1999

Notes and Queries

#2John Simons's edited collection of eighteenth-century chapbooks seeks to provide an insight into the reading habits of the pre-industrial rural and urban poor ... In keeping with his expressed intention of replicating as closely as possible the original reading experience, Simons pursues a non-interventionist editorial policy retaining all misprints... Throughout his introduction and notes, Simons highlights the way in which the chapbooks perpetuated the motifs and concerns of medieval and Renaissance chivalric romance, whilst adapting the narratives for an eighteenth-century and non-élite readership

"John Simons's edited collection of eighteenth-century chapbooks seeks to provide an insight into the reading habits of the pre-industrial rural and urban poor ... In keeping with his expressed intention of replicating as closely as possible the original reading experience, Simons pursues a non-interventionist editorial policy retaining all misprints... Throughout his introduction and notes, Simons highlights the way in which the chapbooks perpetuated the motifs and concerns of medieval and Renaissance chivalric romance, whilst adapting the narratives for an eighteenth-century and non-élite readership."—Notes and Queries

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