Royalist epic and romance

Salzman, Paul; Keeble, N. H.

doi:10.1017/ccol0521642523.013

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution 2001

DOI: 10.1017/ccol0521642523.013

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Royalist epic and romance

Paul Salzman¹,

N. H. Keeble²

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“…He was, therefore, writing his poem and employing romance tropes, at a time when romance as a genre had become more politically relevant than epic (e.g. Salzman ), and his use of romance in a poem that was not published until 1667 must be subjected to a re‐evaluation because of the way it potentially points towards the usage of romance in a republican underground literary culture and in nonconformist writing of the period.…”

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Reading and Writing Romance in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

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This essay argues that Milton's strategic handling of romance in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained can be read as a conscious attempt to reconstitute the genre according to his own Christian focus. Challenging the view that Milton rejected romance outright in his late poems, it points towards some of the ways in which Milton may have thought about romance after the execution of Charles I in 1649 and suggests how the genre could be accommodated to his theopolitical vision. The essay also underscores the necessity for a critical approach that will situate Milton's use of romance in its historical and cultural contexts in the years before and after the Restoration.

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“…5 5 See especially Kahn, ‘The Passions’, ‘Reinventing Romance’, Wayward Contracts ; see also de Groot, Major, Salzman, Smith, Zurcher (‘Royalist Romance’). …”

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Serious Extravagance: Romance Writing in Seventeenth‐Century England

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2011

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Although little recognized as such, the 17th century was a period of great energy and experimentation in British prose fiction, particularly romance. After a brief review of the criticism that has shaped our understanding of romance in the last few decades, this article considers some of the particular problems and tensions defining prose romance in its last great heyday, the Civil War and early Restoration period. French and English romance writers attributed to romance the capacity to be a more flexible and persuasive mode of historical writing than history itself, a storehouse of ‘examples’ both fictional and historical with which readers could devise a course through uncharted political and ethical terrain. At the same time, at this historical crisis point British writers conceded and sometimes took refuge in romance’s tendency (even as roman à clef) to work against figuration, resisting closure and interpretation.

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