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John J. O’Connor.
Amadis de Gaule and its Influence on Elizabethan Literature.

Published New Brunswick: Rutgers U.P., 1970.
SBN 813506220.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; coloured tops.
Printer: Quinn & Boden, Rahway, N.J.
Size: 157×242mm.
Page count: ix,308pp .
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is rubbed, its spine rather faded, its edges and corners worn; the boards and spine are a little blotchy, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 736g.

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Contents: Literary background; Amadis as a book of war — as a book of love — as a courtesy book; Structure & variety; Structure & repetition; The translations of Herberay & Munday; & Elizabethan drama & verse — & Spenser’s Faerie Queene — & Sidney’s Arcadia — & Elizabethan fiction; Conclusion.
Appendices: Glossary of chief characters; Chanson d’Arlanges [OFr text, no translation provided]; Heliodorus & Amadis; The mask in Amadis.

Illustrations: 17 monochrome woodcuts
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp plus note on secondary sources
Index: yes

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