| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9781421404400 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
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Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
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Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene
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Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia
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| SUBJECT |
Arcadia (Sidney, Philip) fast |
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Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (Wroth, Mary, Lady) fast |
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Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast |
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Pericles (Shakespeare, William) fast |
| Subject |
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Romanticism -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century
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Reformation -- England.
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Romances, English -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Protestantism and literature
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Reformation
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Religion and literature
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Romances, English
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Romanticism
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011011225 |
| ISBN |
9781421404400 |
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1421404400 |
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