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Author Werth, Tiffany Jo.

Title The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / Tiffany Jo Werth
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene -- "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: exceptional romance
Summary Romances were among the most popular books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries among both Protestant and Catholic readers. Modeled after Catholic narratives, particularly the lives of saints, these works emphasized the supernatural and the marvelous, themes commonly associated with Catholicism. In this book, Tiffany Jo Werth investigates how post-Reformation English authors sought to discipline romance, appropriating its popularity while distilling its alleged Catholic taint
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index
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Subject Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
SUBJECT Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia
Arcadia (Sidney, Philip) fast
Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (Wroth, Mary, Lady) fast
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast
Pericles (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
Romanticism -- England -- History -- 16th century
Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century
Reformation -- England.
Romances, English -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Protestantism and literature
Reformation
Religion and literature
Romances, English
Romanticism
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011011225
ISBN 9781421404400
1421404400