Tainted Romance
β Scribed by Steele, Carter
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Romances were among the most popular books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries among both Protestant and Catholic readers. Modeled after Catholic narratives, particularly the lives of saints, these works emphasized the supernatural and the marvelous, themes commonly associated with Catholicism. In this book, Tiffany Jo Werth investigates how post-Reformation English authors sought to discipline romance, appropriating its popularity while distilling its alleged Catholic taint.;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.
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