The fabulous dark cloister romance in England after the Reformation /

Werth, Tiffany Jo.

The fabulous dark cloister romance in England after the Reformation / Tiffany Jo Werth. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages :) : illustrations

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts -- Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- Saint or martyr? reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene -- "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: exceptional romance.



9781421404400


Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 --
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 --


Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Romanticism--History--England--16th century.
Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.
Reformation--England.
Romances, English--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PR428 / .F338 2011