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ROMANCE

Often derided as an inferior form of literature, “romance” as a literary

mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars

and readers alike.

In this lucid, imaginative guidebook, Barbara Fuchs:

• traces the myriad transformations of romance throughout literary

history

• examines the concept’s relation to larger questions of literary

and cultural theory

• asks what the history of romance can tell us about the theories

of genre

• probes the resistance to romance, asking what broader issues

might be in play

• explores definitions which might help us to recognize and

analyze it in new forms

• argues the usefulness of romance to critics as a literary strategy

rather than a fixed genre

Romance is a clear and wide-ranging introduction for students of

literary history, comparative literature and modern literary forms. It

is also a convincing case for a literary concept too often set to one

side.

Barbara Fuchs is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the

University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Passing for Spain:

Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity (2003), and Mimesis and Empire:

The New World, Islam, and European Identities (2001).

THE NEW CRITICAL IDIOM

Series Editor: John Drakakis, University of Stirling

. provides a handy, explanatory guide to the use (and abuse) of the term

. offers an original and distinctive overview by a leading literary and

cultural critic

. relates the term to the larger field of cultural representation.

With a strong emphasis on clarity, lively debate, and the widest possible

breadth of examples, The New Critical Idiom is an indispensable approach to

key topics in literary studies.

Also available in this series:

Autobiography by Linda Anderson

Class by Gary Day

Colonialism/Postcolonialism by

Ania Loomba

Culture/Metaculture by

Francis Mulhern

Discourse by Sara Mills

Dramatic Monologue by

Glennis Byron

Genders by David Glover and

Cora Kaplan

Gothic by Fred Botting

Historicism by Paul Hamilton

Humanism by Tony Davies

Ideology by David Hawkes

Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran

Intertextuality by Graham Allen

Irony by Claire Colebrook

Literature by Peter Widdowson

Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

by Philip Hobsbaum

Modernism by Peter Childs

Myth by Laurence Coupe

Narrative by Paul Cobley

Parody by Simon Dentith

Pastoral by Terry Gifford

Realism by Pam Morris

Romanticism by Aidan Day

Science Fiction by Adam Roberts

Sexuality by Joseph Bristow

Stylistics by Richard Bradford

Subjectivity by Donald E. Hall

The Unconscious by

Antony Easthope

The New Critical Idiom is an invaluable series of introductory guides to

today’s critical terminology. Each book:

ROMANCE

Barbara Fuchs

First published 2004

by Routledge

270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Simultaneously published in the UK

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Fuchs, Barbara, 1970–

Romance / Barbara Fuchs.

p. cm. – (New critical idiom)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Romances–History and criticism. 2. Literature,

Medieval–History and criticism. 3. European literature–

Renaissance, 1450–1600–History and criticism. I. Title.

II. Series.

PN56 .R6F83 2004

809.3—dc22

2004003902

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 0-203-33764-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0–415–21260–x (Hbk)

ISBN 0–415–21261–8 (Pbk)

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