Table of Contents

Contents: The Key Words of Amateur Scholarship – The Achievements of Eighteenth-Century Scholars – Collections of Romances in the Nineteenth Century – Middle English Romances and Nineteenth-Century Printing Clubs.

About the Author

The Author: Monica Santini is a post-doc fellow and junior lecturer at the University of Padova. After graduating in Middle English Literature, she has studied the legacy of romance in modern Britain during her Ph.D. She has published articles on sixteenth-century romances, the use of romantic elements in Elizabethan entertainments, and the role of romance in the formation of the language of literary criticism in the eighteenth century. She is currently working on the official letters of queen Elizabeth I and on children’s literature.