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Romance for sale in early modern England : the rise of prose fiction / Steve Mentz.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR836 .M46 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mentz, Steve.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heliodorus, of Emesa.
- English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Fiction--Appreciation--England--History--16th century.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Appreciation.
- Romances--Adaptations.
- Romances.
- England.
- History.
- Fiction--Appreciation--England--History--17th century.
- Books and reading--England--History--16th century.
- Books and reading.
- Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
- Heliodorus, of Emesa--Appreciation--England.
- Heliodorus.
- Romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-252] and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0754654699
- OCLC:
- 60323397
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