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The fabulous dark cloister

Werth, Tiffany Jo.

The fabulous dark cloister romance in England after the Reformation / [electronic resource] : Tiffany Jo Werth. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 234 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-221) and index.

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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Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-ca. 1640. Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.


Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Romanticism--History--England--16th century.
Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.
Reformation--England.
Romances, English--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PR428.R65 / W47 2011

820.9/003