Framing Elizabethan Fictions : Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose.

Framing Elizabethan Fictions : Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose.

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 becom...

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Main Author: Relihan, Constance C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent State University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1500-1700
Canon (Literature)
English fiction > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Framing Elizabethan Fictions; The Intersection of Poor Laws and Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Fictional and Factual Categories; The Lady Frances Did Watch: Gascoigne's Voyeuristic Narrative; Making Men: Visions of Social Mobility in A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure; The Humanist in the Market: Gendering Exchange and Authorship in Lyly's Euphues Romances; Philoclea Parsed: Prose, Verse, and Femininity in Sidney's Old Arcadia.
  • The Romance of Service: The Simple History of Pandosto's Servant ReadersRhetoric, Gender, and Audience Construction in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller; Elizabethan Dreaming: Fictional Dreams from Gascoigne to Lodge; Henry Chettle's Piers Plainness: Seven Years' Prenticeship: Contexts and Consumers; Silenced Women; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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