Right Romance : Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England

Right Romance : Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England / Emily Griffiths Jones.

"A study of romance, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century England, presenting a recontextualized understanding of romance as a multi-generic narrative structure or strategy rather than a prose genre"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Emily Griffiths, 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Series:Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1500-1700
Heroes in literature.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Romanticism > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Romances, English > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature > Early modern
Heroes in literature
Religion and literature
Romances, English
Romanticism
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Protestant re-visions of romance : Philip Sidney's New Arcadia and Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene
  • "Heroical" histories : writing lives into national romance, 1648-1670
  • The fall and the pinnacle : Milton's righting of romance in Paradise lost and Paradise regained
  • "My victorious triumphs are all thine" : the politics of love and elect community in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and disorder
  • "In the next world" : John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, and the imitation in romance.

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