| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) |
| Contents |
Allegory, Constancy, and the Politic Agent -- Incest, Rivalry, and Succession: Romance and the Problem of Sociability -- The Trials of Love: Interest and Social Bonds in Mid-Century Romance -- Interest, the Sovereign Hero, and the End of Romance |
| Summary |
Overturning the common characterization of seventeenth-century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues for the centrality of seventeenth-century romance in key political and moral philosophical debates of its time. Concentrating especially on the intersection between romance and the late humanist problem of self-interest, the book discerns the deeply moral philosophical aspect of prose romances from Sidney?s Arcadia, through Wroth?s Urania and Barclay?s Argenis, to the dozen or so now little-known Royalist romances from the mid-seventeenth century. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of the history of prose fiction and the novel, early modern women?s writing, and those concerned with the political valences of genre and the intersections between literature and moral philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Love -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Ethics in literature.
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Love in literature.
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Self-interest.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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English fiction -- Early modern
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Ethics in literature
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Love in literature
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Love -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Romance fiction, English
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Politics and literature
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Self-interest
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007060020 |
| ISBN |
9780230605138 |
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0230605133 |
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9781403977526 |
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1403977526 |
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9781349537570 |
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1349537578 |
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