The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation
- Author/Creator:
- Werth, Tiffany Jo.
- Publication/Creation:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / Tiffany Jo Werth
- Variant Titles:
- Romance in England after the Reformation
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Sidney, Philip,1554-1586.Arcadia
Spenser, Edmund,1552?-1599.Faerie queene
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Pericles
Wroth, Mary,Lady,approximately 1586-approximately 1640.Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania
Romances, English--History and criticism
Reformation--England
Protestantism and literature--History--16th century
Romanticism--England--History--16th century
Religion and literature--England--History--16th century
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene -- "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: exceptional romance.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990030179220302486
- ISBN:
- 1421403013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421403014 (hardcover : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 710816190
- Barcode:
- 010002545039
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