Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance by Hackett, Helen

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United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 235 pages. Very clean hardback with a clean dust jacket. Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance . Very Good. Hardcover. 2000.

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-Cambridge University Press, 2000-. First edition. viii+235 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. This book traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. The Elizabethan period saw a boom in the publication of romances by male authors. Many of these, Helen Hackett argues, were directed at an imagined female audience, advertising to male readers the voyeuristic pleasures of fictions supposedly read in women's bedchambers. Yet within a hundred years this imagined audience gave way to real women romance-readers and even women romance-writers. Exploring this crucial transitional period, Hackett examines the work of a diverse range of writers from Lyly, Rich and Greene to Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Her book culminates in an analysis of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), the first romance written by a woman and considers the developing representation of female heroism and selfhood, especially the adaptation of saintly roles to… Read More

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