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Title

Romance for sale in early modern England : the rise of prose fiction / Steve Mentz.

Author

Mentz, Steve.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

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Description

x, 261 p. ; ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Heliodorus, of Emesa > Appreciation > England
• Heliodorus, of Emesa
• English fiction > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Fiction > Appreciation > History > England > 16th century
• Fiction > Appreciation > History > England > 17th century
• Books and reading > England > History > 16th century
• Books and reading > England > History > 17th century
• Romances > Adaptations > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-252] and index.

Contents

Introduction : why early modern fiction? -- Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader -- Heliodorus and early modern literary culture -- Anti-epic traditions : Sidney's New Arcadia -- Anti-epic traditons : Greene's romances -- The Homer of women : Greene and the novella -- Fictions of nostalgia : Lodge versus Greene -- Dishonest romance : Greene and Nashe -- Conclusion : Greene's ghosts and the middlebrow author.

Call Number

JFE 06-8690

ISBN

0754654699 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005012363

OCLC

• 60323397
• vendorOCM60323397

Author

Mentz, Steve.

Title

Romance for sale in early modern England : the rise of prose fiction / Steve Mentz.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-252] and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 06-8690