Title Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance / Helen Hackett

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) Contents The readership of Renaissance romance -- Renaissance romance and modern romance -- Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s -- Spanish and Portuguese romances -- Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene -- The Arcadia : readership and authorship -- The Arcadia : heroines -- The Faerie Queene -- Shakespeare's romance sources -- Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Epilogue, the later seventeenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-229) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Renaissance -- England. Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century. Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century. Women -- England -- Intellectual life. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511518900 (ebook) 0511839804 (e-book) 9780511518904 (ebook) 9780511839801 (e-book) (paperback) (paperback)

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