27 records matched your query       

Author:

Mentz, Steve.

Title:

Romance for sale in early modern England : the rise of prose fiction / Steve Mentz.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 261 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Heliodorus,--of Emesa--Appreciation--England.
Heliodorus,--of Emesa.--Aethiopica.
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Fiction--History--England--History--16th century.
Fiction--History--England--History--17th century.
Books and reading--England--History--16th century.
Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
Romances--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-252] and index.

Contents:

Introduction : why early modern fiction? -- Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader -- Heliodorus and early modern literary culture -- Anti-epic traditions : Sidney's New Arcadia -- Anti-epic traditons : Greene's romances -- The Homer of women : Greene and the novella -- Fictions of nostalgia : Lodge versus Greene -- Dishonest romance : Greene and Nashe -- Conclusion : Greene's ghosts and the middlebrow author.

ISBN:

9780754654698 (alk. paper)
0754654699 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60323397

LCCN:

2005012363

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)