Romance for sale in early modern England
Subtitle: the rise of prose fiction
By: Steve Mentz.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Heliodorus, of Emesa -- Appreciation -- England.; Heliodorus, of Emesa.; English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Fiction -- Appreciation -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Fiction -- Appreciation -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
Description: In this volume the author explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late 16th-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader; title: Heliodorus and early modern literary culture; title: Anti-epic traditions : Sidney's new Arcadia; title: Anti-epic traditons : Greene's romances; title: The Homer of women : Greene and the novella; title: Fictions of nostalgia : Lodge versus Greene; title: Dishonest romance : Greene and Nashe.