Title Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance / Helen Hackett.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR830.W6 H63 2000	Available	---

Description	viii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-229) and index.
Contents	Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and a note on the text -- Introduction -- 1. The readership of Renaissance romance -- 2. Renaissance romance and modern romance -- 3. Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s -- 4. Spanish and Portuguese romances -- 5. Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene -- 6. The Arcadia: readership and authorship -- 7. The Arcadia: heroines -- 8. The Faerie Queene -- 9. Shakespeare's romance sources -- 10. Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Epilogue: the later seventeenth century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject	English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English fiction -- Women authors.
	English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
	Romance-language fiction -- England -- History and criticism.
	Romance-language fiction.
	England.
	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English literature -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
	Women and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	16th century
Subject	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term	17th century
ISBN	0521641454