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Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available p



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*1. On Reading Early Fiction, pg. 1*2. Acting Out Ideas in Sidney's Theory, pg. 28*3. Pastoral Romance: Sidney and Lodge, pg. 55*4. Courtly Fiction: Gascoigne and Lyly, pg. 94*5. Robert Greene and Greek Romance, pg. 138*6. Thomas Nashe and the Elizabethan "Realists", pg. 189*7. Thomas Deloney and Middle-Class Fiction, pg. 238*Conclusion, pg. 281*A Chronology of the Fiction Discussed, pg. 286*Index, pg. 291

Idea and Act in Elizabethan Fiction

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 12/8/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691621807, 978-0691621807
      ISBN10: 0691621802

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries "to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it." Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available p



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*1. On Reading Early Fiction, pg. 1*2. Acting Out Ideas in Sidney's Theory, pg. 28*3. Pastoral Romance: Sidney and Lodge, pg. 55*4. Courtly Fiction: Gascoigne and Lyly, pg. 94*5. Robert Greene and Greek Romance, pg. 138*6. Thomas Nashe and the Elizabethan "Realists", pg. 189*7. Thomas Deloney and Middle-Class Fiction, pg. 238*Conclusion, pg. 281*A Chronology of the Fiction Discussed, pg. 286*Index, pg. 291

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