Right romance : heroic subjectivity and elect community in seventeenth-century England / Emily Griffiths Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Emily Griffiths, 1983- author.

Series:

Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700.

Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes in literature.

Romance-language fiction, English--History and criticism.

Romance-language fiction, English.

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

English literature.

Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.

Religion and literature.

Romanticism--England--History--17th century.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 271 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"A study of romance, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century England, presenting a recontextualized understanding of romance as a multi-generic narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Protestant re-visions of romance : Philip Sidney's New Arcadia and Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene

"Heroical" histories : writing lives into national romance, 1648-1670

The fall and the pinnacle : Milton's righting of romance in Paradise lost and Paradise regained

"My victorious triumphs are all thine" : the politics of love and elect community in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and disorder

"In the next world" : John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, and the imitation in romance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-08544-4

OCLC:

1145035148