Fictions of authorship in late Elizabethan narratives : Euphues in Arcadia / Katharine Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Katharine.

Series:

Oxford English Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greene, Robert, 1558-1592--Criticism and interpretation.

Greene, Robert.

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

English fiction.

Authorship in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--16th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge created the pulp fiction of the later sixteenth century. Their bestselling pamphlets combined sensational plots, adventurous heroines and self-conscious narrators. These authors responded to their eager and diverse readers by mischievously mixing high and low literary traditions, the urban world of Lyly's cult hero Euphues and the pastoral lifestyle of Arcadia. This book examines how these highly educated writers dealt with the constraints of mass market authorship, and replaces their often neglected narratives at the heart of Elizabethan literature.

Contents:

Introduction : 'The ironicall recreation of the reader'

The making of Master G.H. : Gascoigne, Whetstone, Grange, and Harvey

Strange and incredible adventures: Lyly's Euphues and Greene's Mamillia

Greene's Glucupilica

Knowing your place : Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon

From Arden to America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-90512-3

0-19-151440-3

OCLC:

437109322