Amour Courtois: Swinburne, Boccaccio, and the Triameron

In addition to his well-known accomplishments in verse, Swinburne was also a keen reader and talented writer of fiction. This paper explores an important and overlooked segment of these endeavours: his imitations of fourteenth-century prose—a series of interlocking short stories he called The Triame...

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Published in:The Modern language review 2018-01, Vol.113 (1), p.1-25
Main Author: Krishnan, Lakshmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Analysis
Beauty
British & Irish literature
Courtly love
Fiction
Intertextuality
Literary style
Love
Love poetry
Love relationships
Medieval literature
Medieval poetry
Narratives
Pleasure
Poetry
Portrayals
Renaissance period
Romantic poetry
Short stories
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
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Summary:In addition to his well-known accomplishments in verse, Swinburne was also a keen reader and talented writer of fiction. This paper explores an important and overlooked segment of these endeavours: his imitations of fourteenth-century prose—a series of interlocking short stories he called The Triameron , inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio—and chronicles which were pastiches of late medieval and early Renaissance narratives. It examines his early medievalism in the context of Victorian interest in the medieval generally and of that of the Pre-Raphaelites in particular in order to show how it became something more complex and individual.
ISSN:0026-7937
2222-4319
DOI:10.1353/mlr.2018.0191