Hackett, Helen.

Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance [[Book] /] Helen Hackett. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 235 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and index.

The readership of Renaissance romance -- Renaissance romance and modern romance -- Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s -- Spanish and Portuguese romances -- Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene -- The Arcadia : readership and authorship -- The Arcadia : heroines -- The Faerie Queene -- Shakespeare's romance sources -- Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Epilogue, the later seventeenth century.

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English fiction--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Love stories, English--History and criticism.
Women--Books and reading--History--England--16th century.
Women--Books and reading--History--England--17th century.
Women and literature--History--England--16th century.
Women and literature--History--England--17th century.
Women--Intellectual life.--England
Renaissance--England.

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