03059nam 22007935 450 991095988610332120251116192442.09786611363239978128136323712813632359780230605138023060513310.1057/9780230605138(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(Perlego)3507769(EXLCZ)99100000000034243320151130d2007 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSeventeenth-Century English Romance Allegory, Ethics, and Politics /by A. Zurcher1st ed. 2007.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2007.1 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349537570 1349537578 9781403977526 1403977526 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.European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600European literatureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureEuropean LiteratureEuropean literatureEuropean literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.European Literature.823.409823/.08509Zurcher Amelia A.1965-1872560MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959886103321Seventeenth-Century English Romance4481762UNINA