LEADER 05092nam 22006491 450 001 9910971818103321 005 20251116141421.0 010 $a1-61277-089-4 010 $a0-585-22765-9 035 $a(CKB)111004365681354 035 $a(OCoLC)861526814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10754375 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153571 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12037711 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153571 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393078 035 $a(PQKB)10420833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3120064 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3120064 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10754375 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL561683 035 $a(OCoLC)868265241 035 $a(BIP)48901577 035 $a(BIP)546222 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365681354 100 $a19930819d1994 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFashioning authority $ethe development of Elizabethan novelistic discourse /$fConstance C. Relihan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aKent, Ohio :$cKent State University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-87338-495-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 162-171) and index. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Elizabethan Contexts and Generic Anxiery -- 1. Prose, Poetry, and Popular Authority -- 2. Borrowed Authority Appropriating "Italian Histories -- 3. Constructing Voice, Subverting Narrative -- 4. Gender, Empowerment, and the Construction of Character -- 5. Authorizing Landscapes The Power of Place -- 6. Constructing the Alien, Authorizing the Self -- Conclusion: Novelistic Discourse and the Problem of Realism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aVarious factors in late 16th-century England contributed to an environment more hospitable to prose fiction than had existed previously-among them, changes in educational opportunities, socioeconomic structures, literacy rates, and access to European literature. Such cultural alterations inevitably produced changes in modes of literary production. Furthermore, access to the bookstall to a new class of readers altered the structures and subjects writers employed. Within this tumultuous context, the writers of fictional prose narrative negotiated-for themselves and their audience a precarious definition of their identity within the Elizabethan literary world. In Fashioning Authority Constance C. Relihan examines the influence of Elizabethan prose fiction on early modern literary culture, emphasizing the role of the nonaristocratic reader in the reception of literature, the importance of the marketplace in the production and reception of prose texts, and the growth of prose as the dominant mode of narrative presentation. Combining cultural analysis with a concern for narrative structure, Relihan explores six strategies by which the writers and readers of Elizabethan fiction struggled to achieve artistic authority: incorporating poetry into prose texts; using translated material; separating authorial from narrative voice; introducing a sense of place; depicting females; and representing non-European cultures. Relihan argues that Elizabethan fiction's unique position on the borders of literate and literary English culture, that is, its position as what M. M. Bakhtin calls "novelistic discourse," allows it to constitute a rich field for examining the ideological rifts of the period. Taking her primary examples from Barnabe Riche's Farewell to Militarie Profession (1581), but also considering texts by a variety of authors (such as Sidney, Deloney, Lyly, Gascoigne, Lodge, Breton, Greene, Harmon, Nashe, and Painter), Relihan demonstrates that regardless of their specific structural and thematic differences, the various modes of Elizabethan fiction all share a common origin in the upheavals of English culture during the later half of the 16th century. By examining novelistic discourse as a category, Fashioning Authority strengthens our understanding of the nature and history of English fiction even as it broadens our sense of Elizabethan culture. The result is an exploration of how Elizabethan novelistic discourse established the cultural place of its newly literate readers and its generically marginal authors, creating literary comfort in narrative prose for those who failed to find it in verse. 606 $aEnglish fiction$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthority in literature 606 $aFiction$xTechnique 606 $aLiterary form 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 615 0$aFiction$xTechnique. 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a823/.309 700 $aRelihan$b Constance Caroline$01863437 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971818103321 996 $aFashioning authority$94476650 997 $aUNINA