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J. Douglas Canfield.
Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration.
Published Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P., 1989.
ISBN 0812281624.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 157×235×32mm.
Page count: xviii,338pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on its dustjacket, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; a mild bump at the top of the spine, and the boards starting to warp slightly; otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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[Publisher’s price £70.50]
Weight without packaging: 755g.

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Contents:
1. Comic closure: Heroic romance — Beowulf — Gawain & the Green Knight — Faerie Queene — Conquest of Granada; Tragicomic romance — Franklin’s Tale — Winter’s Tale — Marriage a-la-Mode; Social comedy — Pardoner’s Tale — Volpone — Man of Mode ; Subversive comedy — Wife of bath — Bartholomew Fair — Country Wife;
Interlude: The lyric — Chaucer — Donne — Rochester;
2. non‑comic closure: Political tragedy — Morte Darthur — Macbeth — Absalom & Achitophel; Personal tragedy — Troilus & Criseyde — Hamlet — All for Love; Corrective satire — Piers Plowman — Troilus & Cressida — The Medall; Absurdist satire — Knight’s Tale — Antony & Cleopatra — Venice Preserv'd.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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