The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction / Samuel Lee Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Samuel Lee, author.

Series:

Columbia University Studies in Comparative Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--English and Greek.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Greek and English.

English fiction--Greek influences.

English fiction.

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

Greek fiction--Appreciation--England.

Greek fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1912]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at five chief writers of Elizabethan fiction, Lyly, Sidney, Greene, Nash, and Lodge to disengage the characteristics of Greek Romance and trace them into English fiction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part One The Greek Romances

I. Introductory: General Characteristics; Chronology; Analyses

II. Plot, Character (Humor), Setting; Structure, Style

Interchapter

Part Two Elizabethan Prose Fiction

I. John Lyly

II. Sir Philip Sidney

III. Robert Greene

IV. Thomas Nash And Thomas Lodge

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89426-0

OCLC:

1100436082