Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors x
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Popular Romance: The Material and the Problems 9
8. 2 Genre and Classification 31
9. 3 The Manuscripts of Popular Romance 49
10. 4 Printed Romance in the Sixteenth Century 67
11. 5 Middle English Popular Romance and National Identity 79
12. 6 Gender and Identity in the Popular Romance 96
13. 7 The Metres and Stanza Forms of Popular Romance 111
14. 8 Orality and Performance 132
15. 9 Popular Romances and Young Readers 150
16. 10 Modern and Academic Reception of the Popular Romance 165
17. Bibliography 181
18. Index 205