The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation /
Werth, Tiffany Jo.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene -- "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: exceptional romance.
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640.
Romances, English
Reformation
Protestantism and literature
Romanticism
Religion and literature