Contents

• Popular romance : the material and the problems / Rosalind Field
• Genre and classification /Raluca L. Radulescu
• The manuscripts of popular romance / Maldwyn Mills and Gillian Rogers
• Printed romance in the sixteenth century /Jennifer Fellows
• Middle English popular romance and national identity /Thomas H. Crofts and Robert Allen Rouse
• Gender and identity in the popular romance /Joanne Charbonneau and Desiree Cromwell
• The metres and stanza forms of popular romance /Ad Putter
• Orality and performance /Karl Reichl
• Popular romances and young readers /Phillipa Hardman
• Modern and academic reception of the popular romance /Cory James Rushton