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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465638603321

Autore

Wilson Katharine

Titolo

Fictions of authorship in late Elizabethan narratives [[electronic resource] ] : Euphues in Arcadia / / Katharine Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90512-3

0-19-151440-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Oxford English Monographs

Disciplina

823/.309357

Soggetti

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

Authorship in literature

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 16th century

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 (p. [171]-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : 'The ironicall recreation of the reader' -- The making of Master G.H. : Gascoigne, Whetstone, Grange, and Harvey -- Strange and incredible adventures:  Lyly's Euphues and Greene's Mamillia -- Greene's Glucupilica -- Knowing your place : Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon -- From Arden to America.

Sommario/riassunto

John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge created the pulp fiction of the later sixteenth century. Their bestselling pamphlets combined sensational plots, adventurous heroines and self-conscious narrators. These authors responded to their eager and diverse readers by mischievously mixing high and low literary traditions, the urban world of Lyly's cult hero Euphues and the pastoral lifestyle of Arcadia. This book examines how these highly educated writers dealt with the constraints of mass market authorship, and replaces their often neglected narratives at the heart of Elizabethan literature.