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What happened to the medieval romance genre during and after the Protestant Reformation in England? Who read these works; who printed them; and what did they mean to the varied audiences encountering them? Through a cross-temporal study using book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, this book argues that the medieval romances printed across the early modern period provided a flexible space for post-Reformation readers to negotiate their relationships with the recent 'medieval' past, a past that was becoming, for some, increasingly distanced from the present. In exploring the complex entanglements of time and technology that accrue on the pages of the post-Reformation romance book, Difficult Pasts offers an interdisciplinary framework for better understanding the role of physical books and imaginative forms in grappling with a 'difficult' past.

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9781526157898

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'Difficult Pasts as a whole is an impressive feat of construction, managing as it does to balance critical and cultural analysis, to sort its selection of texts into deftly differentiated ways of accommodating the past, and to offer succinct but detailed accounts of the manuscripts and printed books with which it is concerned... its breadth of reference, and its ability to speak to a number of different interests, make it satisfyingly varied and thought-provoking.' SELIM Journal -- .

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Mimi Ensley is an Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College

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