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Cover of: Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
November 2, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance
Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance
2000, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

The readership of Renaissance romance
Renaissance romance and modern romance
Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s
Spanish and Portuguese romances
Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene
The Arcadia : readership and authorship
The Arcadia : heroines
The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare's romance sources
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
Epilogue, the later seventeenth century.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and index.

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Cambridge, U.K, New York

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Library of Congress
PR839.L67 H33 2000

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viii, 235 p. ;
Number of pages
235

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OL3964309M
Internet Archive
womenromancefict00hack
ISBN 10
0521641454
LCCN
2001269027
OCLC/WorldCat
44152223
Library Thing
896899
Goodreads
4149636

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Various kinds of evidence support the view of Louis Wright and others that the commercial success of Renaissance romances was attributable to a new female readership.
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