Framing Elizabethan Fiction
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- ISBN 9780873385510
- Weight: 603g
- Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and ""commoners"" have all benefitted from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry and serialized fiction have become the subject of scholarly inquiry. Elizabethan fiction has also profited from the newer modes of critical inquiry. Such texts as George Gascoigne's ""The Adventures of Master F.J."", John Lyly's ""Euphues"", George Pettie's ""A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure"", or Nicholas Breton's ""The Miseries of Mavilla"" have often been seen as the work of ""hack"" writers, inelegant aberrations that demonstrated little about the culture of 16th-century Britain or the development of English fiction. This collection of original essays draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches, especially those influenced by various elements of feminism, Marxism and cultural studies. They illuminate the richness of canonical examples of Elizabethan fiction (Sidney's ""Arcadia"") and less widely read works (Henry Chettle's ""Piers Plainess"").
Constance C. Relihan is Hargis Professor of English at Auburn University in Alabama. She is the author of Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (Kent State University Press, 1994), editor of Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose, and coeditor with G. Stanivukovic of Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England 1570-1640
