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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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 |
Bibliography | 247 |
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
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Seite 42 - One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear Men look at women Women watch themselves being looked at This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision: a sight...
Seite 127 - She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pittie: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheele) she sings a defiance to the giddy Wheele of Fortune.
Seite 32 - ... a share or snap vnto him selfe, of al that they haue gained by their trade in one moneth. And if he doo them wrong, they haue no remedy agaynst hym, no though he beate them, as he vseth commonly to do.
Seite 89 - Euphues, it were superfluous to insert it, and so incredible that all women would rather wonder at it than believe it. Which event being so strange, I had rather leave them in a muse what it should be than in a maze in telling what it was. Philautus...
Seite 151 - To such straight life did it thence forward incite me, that ere I went out of Bolognia I married my curtizan, performed many almes deedes, and hasted so fast out of the Sodom of Italy, that within fortie daies I arriued at the king of Englands campe twixt Ardes and Guines in France : where he with great triumphs met and entertained the Emperour and the French king, and feasted many daies.
Seite 104 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Seite 77 - ... hath wrapped me in this misfortune. And canst thou, Lucilla, be so light of love in forsaking Philautus to fly to Euphues? Canst thou prefer a stranger before thy countryman? a starter before thy companion? Why, Euphues doth perhaps desire my love, but Philautus hath deserved it. Why, Euphues' feature is worthy as good as I, but Philautus his faith is worthy a better.
Seite 100 - Indeed but apparelled, verse being but an ornament and no cause to poetry, sith there have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Seite 24 - That to the hiltes was al with bloud embrewed : And in his left (that kinges and kingdomes rewed) Famine and fyer he held, and therewythall He razed townes, and threwe downe towers and all. Cities he sakt, and realmes that whilom...