Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance - Hackett, Helen (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and index.
Keywords: English fiction -- History and criticism. -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Love stories, English -- History and criticism; Women -- England -- Books and reading -- History -- 16th century; Women -- England -- Books and reading -- History -- 17th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Women -- England -- Intellectual life; Renaissance -- England