{"product_id":"rewriting-arthurian-romance-in-renaissance-france-from-manuscript-to-printed-book-9781843843658","title":"Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France: From Manuscript to Printed Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jane H. M. Taylor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst comprehensive examination of the ways in which printers, publishers and booksellers adapted and rewrote Arthurian romance in early modern France, for new audiences and in new forms.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArthurian romance in Renaissance France has long been treated by modern critics as marginal - although manuscripts and printed volumes, adaptations and rewritings, show just how much writers, and especially publishers, saw its potential attractions for readers. This book is the first full-length study of what happens to Arthur at the beginning of the age of print. It explores the fascinations of Arthurian romance in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from the magnificent presentation volumes offered by Antoine V�rard or Galliot du Pr� in the early years of the century to the perfunctory abbreviated \u003ci\u003eLancelot\u003c\/i\u003e published by Beno�t Rigaud in Lyon in 1591; from PierreSala's dutiful \"translation\" of \u003ci\u003eYvain\u003c\/i\u003e to Jean Maugin's exuberant rewriting of the prose \u003ci\u003eTristan\u003c\/i\u003e; from attempts at \"new\" romance like the little-known \u003ci\u003eGiglan\u003c\/i\u003e to the runaway best-seller \u003ci\u003eAmadis de Gaule\u003c\/i\u003e.The book's primary focus is the techniques and stratagems employed by publishers and their workshops to renew Arthurian romance for a new readership: the ways in which the publishers, the translators and the adapters of the Renaissance tailor romance to fit new cultural contexts. Their story - which is the story of the rise and fall of one of the great genres of the Middle Ages - allows privileged insights into socio-cultural and ideological attitudes in the France of the Renaissance, and into issues of literary taste, particular patterns of choice and preference. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jane H.M. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46501051334807,"sku":"9781843843658","price":13579.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781843843658.webp?v=1769196058","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rewriting-arthurian-romance-in-renaissance-france-from-manuscript-to-printed-book-9781843843658","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}