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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450913603321

Autore

Sandy Amelia Zurcher <1965->

Titolo

Seventeenth-century English romance [[electronic resource] ] : allegory, ethics, and politics / / Amelia A. Zurcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007

ISBN

1-281-36323-5

9786611363239

0-230-60513-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

823.409

823/.08509

Soggetti

Love stories, English - History and criticism

English fiction - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Politics and literature - England - History - 17th century

Love - Moral and ethical aspects

Ethics in literature

Love in literature

Self-interest

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Allegory, Constancy, and the Politic Agent; Chapter 2 Incest, Rivalry, and Succession: Romance and the Problem of Sociality; Chapter 3 The Trials of Love: Interest and Social Bonds in Midcentury Romance; Chapter 4 Interest, the Sovereign Hero, and the End of Romance; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.