Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

Romance for Sale in Early Modern England
Author: Steve Mentz
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754654698

Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.

Staging Early Modern Romance

Staging Early Modern Romance
Author: Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135895244

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest have long been characterized as "romances," their connections with the popular prose romances of their day and the dramatic romances that preceded them have frequently been overlooked. Constructed to explore those connections, this volume includes original essays that relate at least one prose or dramatic romance to an English play written from 1570 to 1630. The introduction explores the use of the term "dramatic romance" over several centuries and the commercial association between print culture, gender, and drama. Eight essays discuss Shakespeare’s plays; three more examine plays by Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger. Other authors treated at some length include Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, Chaucer, Sidney, Greene, Lodge, and Wroth. Barbara Mowat’s afterword considers Shakespeare’s use of Greek romance. Written by foremost scholars of Shakespeare and early modern prose fiction, this book explores the vital cross-currents that occurred between narrative and dramatic forms of Greek, medieval, and early modern romance.

Renaissance Romance

Renaissance Romance
Author: Nandini Das
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1409410145

Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining a range of texts and the fiction of Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth in particular, Das illustrates the sheer cultural persistence of romance, and reveals how a generational consciousness inherent in the genre transformed the new prose fiction of the period.

Seventeenth-Century English Romance

Seventeenth-Century English Romance
Author: A. Zurcher
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2007-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230605133

Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.

Knights in Arms

Knights in Arms
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442648872

Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney'sArcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era.

The Cambridge History of French Literature

The Cambridge History of French Literature
Author: William Burgwinkle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2011-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521897866

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.