Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.
Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.
Steve Mentz is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in Queens, New York, USA. He is also co-editor of Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (2004).
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Contents: Introduction: Why early modern fiction? Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader Heliodorus and early modern literary culture Anti-epic traditions: Sidney's New Arcadia Anti-epic traditions: Greene's romances The Homer of women: Greene and the novella Fictions of nostalgia: Lodge versus Greene Dishonest romance: Greene and Nashe Conclusion: Greene's ghosts and the middlebrow author Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: Why early modern fiction? Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader Heliodorus and early modern literary culture Anti-epic traditions: Sidney's New Arcadia Anti-epic traditions: Greene's romances The Homer of women: Greene and the novella Fictions of nostalgia: Lodge versus Greene Dishonest romance: Greene and Nashe Conclusion: Greene's ghosts and the middlebrow author Bibliography Index.
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