Werth, Tiffany Jo.

The fabulous dark cloister romance in England after the Reformation / [electronic resource] : Tiffany Jo Werth. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages :) : illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index.

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.

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Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.


Arcadia (Sidney, Philip)
Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (Wroth, Mary, Lady)
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Pericles (Shakespeare, William)


1500 - 1599


Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Romanticism--History--England--16th century.
Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.
Reformation--England.
Romances, English--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Protestantism and literature.
Reformation.
Religion and literature.
Romances, English.
Romanticism.


England.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

PR428.R65 / W47 2011

820.9/003