This collection of essays argues that literary identity can be created and re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed, and that one may exist within a group while remaining foreign to it. Contributors examine this theme through a wide range of lenses--from marginal characters to gender to questions of voice and naming--in works that span genres and historical periods.

Studies manuscript sources, often of under-studied works and writers, to reassess the use of French as a literary language outside France in the medieval period.

Originally published in 1949, this volume contains 23 essays in the field of French studies by colleagues of Professor R. L. Greene.

Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.

Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.

Recasts queerness in medieval French romances by juxtaposing key genres for the first time, revealing how their literary sophistication overlaps with modern conceptions of queerness.