Author: Dr Nandini Das
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1409478866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomings of its dated narrative conventions. Yet despite that general condemnation, the striking growth in English fiction in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is marked by writers who persisted in using this much-maligned narrative form. In Renaissance Romance, Nandini Das examines why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated with successive new generations at this particular historical juncture. Across a range of texts in which romance was adopted by the court, by popular print and by women, Das shows how the process of realignment and transformation through which the new prose fiction took shape was driven by a generational consciousness that was always inherent in romance. In the fiction produced by writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth, the transformative interaction of romance with other emergent forms, from the court masque to cartography, was determined by specific configurations of social groups, drawn along the lines of generational difference. What emerged as a result of that interaction radically changed the possibilities of fiction in the period.
Author: Joad Raymond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0521028779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 0470998725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.