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
OldControl:muse9781421404400.
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.
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.