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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464151103321

Autore

Werth Tiffany Jo

Titolo

The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / / Tiffany Jo Werth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0440-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/003

Soggetti

Protestantism and literature - History - 16th century

Reformation - England

Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century

Romances, English - History and criticism

Romanticism - England - History - 16th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.