Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature

by Rhiannon Purdie

A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated.

Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way thatno other verse form does. The first examples are recorded near the beginning of the fourteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841622
• ISBN13: 9781843841623
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"