03231nam 2200805Ia 450 991082393770332120200520144314.01-281-36323-597866113632390-230-60513-310.1057/9780230605138(CKB)1000000000342433(EBL)308136(OCoLC)314793969(SSID)ssj0000284089(PQKBManifestationID)11236707(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284089(PQKBWorkID)10261131(PQKB)10789070(SSID)ssj0001660770(PQKBManifestationID)16439692(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660770(PQKBWorkID)14990072(PQKB)11050555(DE-He213)978-0-230-60513-8(MiAaPQ)EBC308136(Au-PeEL)EBL308136(CaPaEBR)ebr10194087(CaONFJC)MIL136323(EXLCZ)99100000000034243320070103d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSeventeenth-century English romance allegory, ethics, and politics /Amelia A. Zurcher1st ed. 2007.Basingstoke ;New York Palgrave Macmillanc20071 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53757-8 1-4039-7752-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexOverturning 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.Love stories, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish fictionEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismPolitics and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryLoveMoral and ethical aspectsEthics in literatureLove in literatureSelf-interestLove stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryLoveMoral and ethical aspects.Ethics in literature.Love in literature.Self-interest.823.409823/.08509Sandy Amelia Zurcher1965-1720085MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823937703321Seventeenth-century English romance4118447UNINA