Romancing treason : the literature of the Wars of Roses / Megan Leitch

Author:: Leitch, Megan
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.`that horrible and falsly forsworne traitor N': Discourses and Mentalities of Treason, c.1437--c.1497 -- 3.`For treason walketh wonder wyde': Treachery and Romance during the Wars of the Roses -- 4.Speaking (of) Treason in Malory's Morte Darthur: Fifteenth-Century Insular Romance and Chronicle -- 5.Thinking Twice about Treason in Caxton's Prose Romances: Proper Chivalric Conduct and the English Printing Press -- 6.Post Script: Writing of/off Treason after 1500.

Summary:

'Romancing Treason' addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of its distinctive prose romances. Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason c.1437-97 suggests a way of conceptualizing the understudied space between the Lancastrian literary culture of the early fifteenth century and the Tudor literary cultures of the early and mid-sixteenth century.

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9780191792205 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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