Romance for sale in early modern England : the rise of prose fiction / Steve Mentz.

Author/creator Mentz, Steve
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
Descriptionx, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Heliodorus, of Emesa--Appreciation. --England.
Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica.
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Fiction--Appreciation. --England. --History. --16th century.
Fiction--Appreciation. --England. --History. --17th century.
Books and reading--England. --History. --16th century.
Books and reading--England. --History. --17th century.
Romances--Adaptations. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction : why early modern fiction? -- Early modern romance and the middlebrow reader -- Heliodorus and early modern literary culture -- Anti-epic traditions : Sidney's New Arcadia -- Anti-epic traditons : Greene's romances -- The Homer of women : Greene and the novella -- Fictions of nostalgia : Lodge versus Greene -- Dishonest romance : Greene and Nashe -- Conclusion : Greene's ghosts and the middlebrow author.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-252] and index.
LCCN 2005012363
ISBN0754654699 (alk. paper)