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Amadis De Gaule
Author_Nandini Das
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courtly fiction
De La Noue
early modern literature
Elizabethan Fiction
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evolution of English narrative genres
fiction
fulke
gaule
generational identity
greville
Hellenistic Fiction
Italianate Fiction
Lady Grace Mildmay
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania
Lybeaus Desconus
Manuscript Continuation
Mary Sidney
Mary Wroth's Urania
Mary Wroth’s Urania
Montgomery's Urania
Montgomery’s Urania
narrative transformation
philip
prose
Prose Fiction
prose narrative forms
Richard Hyrde
Serio Ludere
sidney
Sidney's Fiction
Sidney's Narrative
Sidney's Text
sidneys
Sidney’s Fiction
Sidney’s Narrative
Sidney’s Text
sir
Valois Tapestries
William Hunt
William Ponsonby
women writers renaissance
Wroth's Fiction
Wroth's Narrative
Wroth's Text
Wroth’s Fiction
Wroth’s Narrative
Wroth’s Text
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409410133
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomings of its dated narrative conventions. Yet despite that general condemnation, the striking growth in English fiction in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is marked by writers who persisted in using this much-maligned narrative form. In Renaissance Romance, Nandini Das examines why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated with successive new generations at this particular historical juncture. Across a range of texts in which romance was adopted by the court, by popular print and by women, Das shows how the process of realignment and transformation through which the new prose fiction took shape was driven by a generational consciousness that was always inherent in romance. In the fiction produced by writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth, the transformative interaction of romance with other emergent forms, from the court masque to cartography, was determined by specific configurations of social groups, drawn along the lines of generational difference. What emerged as a result of that interaction radically changed the possibilities of fiction in the period.
Nandini Das is lecturer in Renaissance English literature at the University of Liverpool and the editor of Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585).
