Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance - Rilegato

Hackett, Helen

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ISBN 10: 0521641454 ISBN 13: 9780521641456

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Riassunto

This book, first published in 2000, traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. The Elizabethan period saw a boom in the publication of romances by male authors. Many of these, Helen Hackett argues, were directed at an imagined female audience, advertising to male readers the voyeuristic pleasures of fictions supposedly read in women's bedchambers. Yet within a hundred years this imagined audience gave way to real women romance-readers and even women romance-writers. Exploring this crucial transitional period, 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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Recensione:

'A significant contribution to the study of Renaissance prose fiction.' Literature and History

'Hackett's scholarship in this volume is illuminating and rewards close reading as it consolidates critical interest in many unfairly neglected texts in early modern studies.' Shakespeare Yearbook

Descrizione del libro:

This book, first published in 2000, traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. It encompasses a diverse range of texts, including work by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare and the first romance written by a woman, Lady Mary Wroth's Urania.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521641454
• ISBN 13: 9780521641456
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 244