Title Romance for Sale in Early Modern England : the Rise of Prose Fiction

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Early Modern Fiction?; 1 Early Modern Romance and the Middlebrow Reader; 2 Heliodorus and Early Modern Literary Culture; 3 Anti-Epic Traditions: Sidney's New Arcadia; 4 Anti-Epic Traditions: Greene's Romances; 5 The Homer of Women: Greene and the Novella; 6 Fictions of Nostalgia: Lodge versus Greene; 7 Dishonest Romance: Greene and Nashe; Conclusion: Greene's Ghosts and the Middlebrow Author; Bibliography; Index Summary In this volume the author explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late 16th-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience Notes Print version record Subject Heliodorus, of Emesa -- Appreciation -- England Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica. SUBJECT Heliodorus, of Emesa fast Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa) fast Subject English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Fiction -- Appreciation -- England -- History -- 16th century Fiction -- Appreciation -- England -- History -- 17th century Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century Romances -- Adaptations Art appreciation Books and reading English fiction -- Early modern Fiction -- Appreciation Romances England Genre/Form Adaptations Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351902595 1351902598

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