Framing Elizabethan Fictions
Subtitle: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780873385510
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Narration (Rhetoric); English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English Novel And Short Story; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Theory, etc; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; History; Renaissance; 16th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; English fiction; English prose literature; History and criticism
Description: Elizabethan fiction has profited from the newer modes of critical inquiry. Such texts as George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J., John Lyly's Euphues, George Pettie's A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure, or Nicholas Breton's The Miseries of Mavilla have often been seen as the work of "hack" writers, inelegant aberrations that demonstrated little about the culture of 16th-century Britain or the development of English fiction.

This collection of original essays draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches, especially those influenced by various elements of feminism, Marxism, and cultural studies. They illuminate the richness of canonical examples of Elizabethan fiction (Sidney's Arcadia) and less widely read works (Henry Chettle's Piers Plainess).