Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative ProseConstance Caroline Relihan Kent State University Press, 1996 - 274 Seiten Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and "commoners" have all benefited from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry, and serialized fiction have become the subject of scholarly inquiry. Elizabethan fiction has also profited from the newer odes of critical inquiry. Such texts as George Gascoigne's The Adventurers of Master F.J., John Lyly's Euphues, George Pettie's A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure, or Nicolas Breton's The Miseries of Mavilla have often been seen as the work of "hack" writers, inelegant aberrations that demonstrated little about the culture of 16th-century Britain or the development of English fiction. This collection of original essays draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches, especially those influenced by various elements of feminism, Marxism, and cultural studies. They illuminate the richness of canonical examples of Elizabethan fiction (Sidney's Arcadia) and less widely read works (Henry Chettle's Piers Plainess). |
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Gascoignes Voyeuristic Narrative | 41 |
Visions of Social Mobility in A Petite Pallace of Pettie | 55 |
Prose Verse and Femininity in Sidneys Old Arcadia | 99 |
The Simple History of Pandostos | 117 |
Rhetoric Gender and Audience Construction in Thomas Nashes | 141 |
Seven Years Prenticeship Contexts | 169 |
Silenced Women | 187 |
Notes | 211 |
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Contributors | 265 |
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apprentices Arcadia argues Arsadachus audience beggars body Cambridge character Clarendon construction Copland's court courtly criminal critical culture desire Diamante discourse domestic Dorastus dream early modern eclogues Elinor Elizabethan fiction England English essay Euphues euphuism Fawnia female feminine Frances Frances's Gascoigne Gascoigne's gaze gender genre Greene Harman's Helgerson History humanist ideologies interpretation Jack Jack's John Lyly lady legislation literary literature London Louis Montrose lover Lucilla Lyly's male Margarite Mark Thornton marriage masculine narrative narrator Nashe's Novel Old Arcadia Oxford pamphlet Pandosto Petrarchan Pettie's Philautus Philoclea Piers Plainness Piers's poems Poetics poetry political poor popular poverty prose fiction Pyrocles readers reading Renaissance rhetorical Robert Greene Robert Greene's rogue role romance of service servants sexual Sidney Sidney's Sir Philip Sidney sixteenth century social sonnet sequence status Stephen Greenblatt story suggests symbolic Thomas Harman Thomas Lodge Thomas Nashe tion Unfortunate Traveller vagabond vagrant verse woman women writing York