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  • Seventeenth-century English romance[electronic resource] :allegory, ethics, and politics /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 823/.08509
    Title/Author: Seventeenth-century English romance : allegory, ethics, and politics // Amelia A. Zurcher.
    remainder title: 17th century English romance
    Author: Sandy, Amelia Zurcher,
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
    Description: viii, 226 p.
    Subject: Love stories, English - History and criticism.
    Subject: English fiction - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700
    Subject: Politics and literature - History - 17th century. - England
    Subject: Love - Moral and ethical aspects.
    Subject: Ethics in literature.
    Subject: Love in literature.
    Subject: Self-interest.
    ISBN: 9780230605138
    ISBN: 0230605133
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-219) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Allegory, Constancy, and the Politic Agent -- Incest, Rivalry, and Succession: Romance and the Problem of Sociability -- The Trials of Love: Interest and Social Bonds in Mid-Century Romance -- Interest, the Sovereign Hero, and the End of Romance.
    [NT 15000229]: Overturning the common characterization of seventeenth-century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues for thecentrality of seventeenth-century romance in key political and moral philosophical debates of its time. Concentrating especially on the intersection between romance and the late humanist problem of self-interest, the book discerns the deeply moral philosophical aspect of prose romances from Sidney?sArcadia, through Wroth?s Urania and Barclay?s Argenis, to the dozen orso now little-known Royalist romances from the mid-seventeenth century. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of the history of prose fiction and the novel, early modern women?s writing, and those concerned with the political valences of genre and the intersections between literature and moral philosophy.
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