Idea and act in Elizabethan fiction / by Walter R. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Walter R., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it."Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

1. On Reading Early Fiction

2. Acting Out Ideas in Sidney's Theory

3. Pastoral Romance: Sidney and Lodge

4. Courtly Fiction: Gascoigne and Lyly

5. Robert Greene and Greek Romance

6. Thomas Nashe and the Elizabethan "Realists"

7. Thomas Deloney and Middle-Class Fiction

Conclusion

A Chronology of the Fiction Discussed

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691648637

0691648638

9781400875016

1400875013

OCLC:

967541638