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03766aam a2200385I 4500 001 6F64565E55EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150908010358 008 140704s2015 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0198724594 020 $a 9780198724599 035 $a (OCoLC)882899117 040 $a ERASA $b eng $c ERASA $d BDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d ZCU $d OWS $d AUM $d OCLCO $d MUU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a PR291 $b .L45 2015 082 04 $a 810/820 100 1 $a Leitch, Megan G., $e author. 245 10 $a Romancing treason : $b the literature of the Wars of the Roses / $c Megan G. Leitch. 246 3 $a Literature of the Wars of the Roses 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press $c 2015. 300 $a 218 pages ; $c 23 cm. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 'that horrible and falsly forsworne traitor N': Discourses and Mentalities of Treason, c. 1437-c. 1497 -- 'For treason walketh wonder wyde': Treachery and Romance during the Wars of the Roses -- Speaking (of) Treason in Malory's Morte Darthur: Fifteenth-Century Insular Romance and Chronicle -- Thinking Twice about Treason in Caxton's Prose Romances": Proper Chivalric Conduct and the English Printing Press -- Post Script: Writing of/off Treason after 1500. 520 8 $a This book addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason during the decades c.1437-c.1497 suggests a way of conceptualising 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. Drawing upon theories of political discourse and interpellation, and of the power of language to shape social identities, this book explores the ways in which, in this textual culture, treason is both a source of anxieties about community and identity, and a way of responding to those concerns. Despite the context of decades of civil war, treason is an understudied theme even with regards to Thomas Malory's celebrated prose romance, the Morte Darthur. Leitch accordingly provides a double contribution to Malory criticism by addressing the Morte Darthur's engagement with treason, and by reading the Morte in the hitherto neglected context of the prose romances and other secular literature written by Malory's English contemporaries. This book also offers new insights into the nature and possibilities of the medieval romance genre and sheds light on understudied texts such as the prose Siege of Thebes and Siege of Troy, and the romances William Caxton translated from French. More broadly, this book contributes to reconsiderations of the relationship between medieval and early modern culture by focusing on a comparatively neglected sixty-year interval - the interval that is customarily the dividing line, the 'no man's land' between well-but separately-studied periods in English literary studies. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-214) and index. 650 0 $a English literature $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Treason in literature. 650 7 $a English literature $x Middle English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710961 650 7 $a Treason in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155847 648 7 $a 1100 - 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032924.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6F64565E55EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search