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.