Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance
Awards:   Winner of Joint winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Winner of Winner of the 2021 Roland H.Bainton Prize in Literature Joint winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
Author:   Helen Moore (President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Associate Professor, Faculty of English, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198832423


Pages:   414
Publication Date:   14 May 2020
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Joint winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
  • Winner of Winner of the 2021 Roland H.Bainton Prize in Literature Joint winner of the 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

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Author:   Helen Moore (President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Associate Professor, Faculty of English, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.814kg
ISBN:  

9780198832423


ISBN 10:   0198832427
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   14 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Receiving Romance 3: Princely Reading or a Wanton Book?: Amadis in Tudor England 4: The Legacy of Don Quixote: Amadis in the Early Seventeenth Century 5: The Homer of Romancy-Writers: Republic, Restoration and After 6: Amadis as Spectacle and Source: The Eighteenth Century 7: The Genius of Old Romance: Amadis and British Romanticism 8: Coda: Crocodile and Catawampus Synopsis of Amadis de Gaule, books one to four Bibliography

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Helen Moore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and teaches English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she is currently President. She has edited the early modern romance Amadis de Gaule (Ashgate, 2004) and the play Guy of Warwick (1661) (Malone Society, 2007). She was the lead curator for the 2011 Bodleian Libraries' exhibition 'Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible', mounted in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC. She co-edited the accompanying book, Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible (Bodleian Libraries, 2011), and is also the co-editor of Classical Literary Careers and their Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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