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.
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