Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
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Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Book Details
- Author
- Helen Hackett
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Gothic & Romantic
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521031547
- ISBN-10
- 0521031540
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ISBN: 0521031540
Author: Hackett, Helen
Condition: New
This book traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. Exploring this crucial transitional period, Helen Hackett examines the work of a diverse range of writers from Lyly, Rich and Greene to Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Her book culminates in an analysis of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), the first romance written by a woman, and considers the developing representation of female heroism and selfhood, especially the adaptation of saintly roles to secular and even erotic purposes.
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