Edmund Spenser, Books I and VI of The Faerie Queene.Robert Greene, Pandosto, Menaphon (both short).The Course Reader and other texts will be available in paperback for purchase at the Word bookstore, 469 Milton Street, 845-5640. So as best to define romance and its interactions with other genres in particular texts that engineer complex generic mixtures, such as Sidney’s and Spenser’s, attention will be given to the theory of literary genres. Proceeding chronologically, the course will address texts that epitomize romance’s scope in this period, including the qualitatively best and most influential exemplars, as well as those most popular in sales, such as Robert Greene’s, which illustrate the genre’s cultural topicality. Focusing on the diverse expressions of this literary form at this time there, in prose fiction, narrative poetry, and drama, this course should especially interest those attracted to early modern studies, or to the history and development of the novel, or to the theory and history of literary forms.

From around 1575 to 1610, the writing of romance became particularly vibrant in England. Its great exponents include Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. In its uniquely serendipitous version of the world, few social conventions or expectations can be taken for granted. It was characterized by much narrative variety, multiple plots, open-ended structures, digression, coincidence, fantasy, wonder, and wish-fulfillment. Description: One of the centrally fashionable literary genres of early modern Europe, romance was the most important precursor of the novel, though in many ways different.

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