The romance of the patchwork quilt in America

Marvels and the marvellous are synonymous with medieval romance. Yet scholars often express disappointment at the wonders they find in Middle English romance. This chapter asks a s...

This chapter discusses several developments pertaining to the phenomenon of ‘moral romance’ as well as the state of the novel at mid-century. The 1740s were a pivotal decade for th...

This article explores the question of Middle English romance. Literal questions, variously rudimentary, enigmatic, preposterous, provide the impetus for understanding the genre as ...

This chapter discusses the romance of Ninus and Semiramis, the two great Mesopotamian rulers and city-founders. A papyrus from the first century CE seems to tell their story in the...

The chapter presents the two types of Romance palatalization that have given rise to patterns of allomorphy. These involve principally the first-person singular present indicative ...

AbstractFor decades, scholars and commentators have differentiated the US from Europe by pointing to the relative weakness of the American social welfare state. European social dem...

This study examines how the particular character of Grail romances follows from the incongruous meeting of courtly and Christian discourses, combined for the first time in LeConte ...