Renaissance Romance

The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620

Nandini Das (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27875-2 (ISBN)

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Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomings of its dated narrative conventions. Yet despite that general condemnation, the striking growth in English fiction in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is marked by writers who persisted in using this much-maligned narrative form. In Renaissance Romance, Nandini Das examines why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated with successive new generations at this particular historical juncture. Across a range of texts in which romance was adopted by the court, by popular print and by women, Das shows how the process of realignment and transformation through which the new prose fiction took shape was driven by a generational consciousness that was always inherent in romance. In the fiction produced by writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth, the transformative interaction of romance with other emergent forms, from the court masque to cartography, was determined by specific configurations of social groups, drawn along the lines of generational difference. What emerged as a result of that interaction radically changed the possibilities of fiction in the period.

Nandini Das is lecturer in Renaissance English literature at the University of Liverpool and the editor of Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585).

Introduction; Chapter 1 Wandering Knights; Chapter 2 Sidney’s Arcadian Expectations; Chapter 3 Errant Scholars; Chapter 4 The Tales of ‘Robin Greene’; Chapter 5 Deviant Women; Chapter 6 ‘Dancing in a Net’; Chapter 101 Afterword;

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-27875-0 / 1138278750
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27875-2 / 9781138278752
Zustand	Neuware