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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Marvels Matter
1. Mirroring Otherworlds: Fairy Magic, Wonder, and Morality
2. Revealing Spectacles: Virtue and Identity in Fair Unknowns
3. Moving Marvels: Action and Agency in Courtly Spectacles
4. Talking Magic: Chaucer’s Spectacles of Language
Conclusion: How Marvels Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“A well-written, accessible, and insightful volume, and one of clear interest to scholars of Middle English literature, particularly of romance. And it may well prove very useful, too, for teaching. . . . The value of this study is in the further speculation on texts like those discussed it stimulates, and on larger questions about language and literary tradition—and the role wonder can play in our own ethical engagement with the world.”
—Lisa M. C. Weston, Modern Philology
