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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... literary criticism ; John Grange's The Golden Aphroditis ( 1577 ) cannot decide whether it is a cutting allegorical satire , a fluffy romance , a morsel of high - society gossip , or an extended exercise in plagiarism . " John Lyly's ...
... literary criticism ; John Grange's The Golden Aphroditis ( 1577 ) cannot decide whether it is a cutting allegorical satire , a fluffy romance , a morsel of high - society gossip , or an extended exercise in plagiarism . " John Lyly's ...
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... literary experiment that was going on at the time of writing.30 As with E.K. , one of the principal targets of his criticism is the excessive straining after rhetorical inventiveness among his peers , which prompts them to seek out ...
... literary experiment that was going on at the time of writing.30 As with E.K. , one of the principal targets of his criticism is the excessive straining after rhetorical inventiveness among his peers , which prompts them to seek out ...
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... literary genre than the one in which he wishes to become involved : Euphues is ' more likely to correct my follyes with counsaile , then to comfort me with any pretie conceit ' ( ii . 90 ) . Having con- vinced himself that Euphues is ...
... literary genre than the one in which he wishes to become involved : Euphues is ' more likely to correct my follyes with counsaile , then to comfort me with any pretie conceit ' ( ii . 90 ) . Having con- vinced himself that Euphues is ...
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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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