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Title:
Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance
JLCTITLE245:
Helen Hackett.
Personal Author:
Hackett, Helen.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
viii, 235 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780521641456
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and index.
Subject Term:
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.

Romance fiction -- England -- History and criticism.

English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.

Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and a note on the text -- Introduction -- 1. The readership of Renaissance romance -- 2. Renaissance romance and modern romance -- 3. Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s -- 4. Spanish and Portuguese romances -- 5. Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene -- 6. The Arcadia: readership and authorship -- 7. The Arcadia: heroines -- 8. The Faerie Queene -- 9. Shakespeare's romance sources -- 10. Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Epilogue: the later seventeenth century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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