Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage, and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose NarrativesClarendon Press, 1997 - Всего страниц: 320 In Elizabethan Fictions, Robert Maslen argues that English writers of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 15570s produced some of the most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century. Through close examination of a number of key texts, from William Baldwin's satircal fable eware the Cat to George Gascoigne's mock-romance he Adventures of Master F.J. and John Lyly's immensely popular uphues books, he sets out to demonstrate the courage as well as the considerable skills which these undervalued authors brought to their work. They wrote at a time when the Elizabethan censorship system was growing increasingly rigorous in response to the perceived threat of infiltration from Catholic Europe, yet they chose to write books of a kind that was specifically associated with Catholic Italy and France. Their topics were the secrets, lies, and acts of petty treason which vitiated the private lives of the contemporary ruling classes, and their vigorous experiments with style and form marked out prose fiction for years to come as shifty and perilous literary territory. These writers presented themselves as masters of the arts of duplicity, whose talents made them emminently suitable for employment as informers or spies, whether for the government or for its most deadly ideological opponents. Their sophisticated narratives of sexual intrigue had a profound effect on the development of the complex poetry and drama which sprung up towards the end of the century, as well as of the modern novel. This book provides a much-needed reappraisal of their achievements. _ _ |
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... Painter compensates for the doubtful moral status of his palace is by falsifying the social status of its inhabi- tants . In 1566 he describes them as ' renowmed wights ' whose ' prin- cely partes and glorious gestes ' make them sound ...
... Painter compensates for the doubtful moral status of his palace is by falsifying the social status of its inhabi- tants . In 1566 he describes them as ' renowmed wights ' whose ' prin- cely partes and glorious gestes ' make them sound ...
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... Painter and Fenton seem to have involved themselves in shady dealings.39 In 1561 Painter was appointed clerk of the ordnance of the Tower of London , and so became a small component in the defensive machinery of the English state . But ...
... Painter and Fenton seem to have involved themselves in shady dealings.39 In 1561 Painter was appointed clerk of the ordnance of the Tower of London , and so became a small component in the defensive machinery of the English state . But ...
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... Painter's embellishment of the passage makes the paradox more marked : And although by the first face and view , some of these may seeme to intreat of unlawfull Love , and the foule practises of the same , yet being throughly reade and ...
... Painter's embellishment of the passage makes the paradox more marked : And although by the first face and view , some of these may seeme to intreat of unlawfull Love , and the foule practises of the same , yet being throughly reade and ...
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The Fiction of Simplicity in the SixteenthCentury Treatise | 21 |
Fictions and their Commentaries before 1570 68 THE UNIVERSITY OF MIONGAN LIBRARILO | 114 |
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