Covers the Romance in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. Examines the genre’s roots in classical tales of epic travels, adventure, and fantasy. Includes chivalry, heroism, questing, hospitality, and courtliness; attends to the genre’s place in the period’s cross-cultural and cross-class encounters. Texts include Athurian legends, Gawain, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare, Orlando Furioso, Gerusalemme Liberata, and Don Quixote.
- Teacher: Kathryn Fore