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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959886103321

Autore

Zurcher Amelia A. <1965->

Titolo

Seventeenth-Century English Romance : Allegory, Ethics, and Politics / / by A. Zurcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363239

9781281363237

1281363235

9780230605138

0230605133

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

823.409

823/.08509

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

European literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

European Literature

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.