Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia by Kat

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John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge created the pulp fiction of the later sixteenth century. Their pamphlets combined sensational plots, adventurous heroines, and self-conscious narrators. This book examines how they dealt with the constraints of mass market authorship, and replaces their narratives at the heart of Elizabethan literature.

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The sensational narratives of John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge established prose fiction as an independent genre in the late sixteenth century. The texts they created are a paradoxical blend of outrageous plotting and rhetorical sophistication, high and low culture. Although their works were feverishly devoured by contemporary readers, these writers are usually only known to students as sources for Shakespearean comedy. Fictions of Authorship in LateElizabethan Narratives re-examines some of the pamphleteers earlier critics christened the 'University Wits', young professionals who exposed their education and talents to the still new and uncertain worldof mass market publication. These texts chart their authors' disenchantment with the limitations of romance and of their own careers, yet they also form an alternative canon of vernacular writing, which is both self-referential and self-questioning. Shocking, unpredictable, and very engaging, these narratives provide a vivid commentary on the interface between popular taste and 'English literature'.

Author Biography

Katharine Wilson is at Research Associate, Department of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University..

Table of Contents

Introduction1: Harvey's Gascoigne2: Lyly and Mamillia3: Greene's Alternative Anthologies4: Greene's Glucupilica5: Lodge's Arden and AmericaConclusion

Review

...reveal[s] stylistic depth beyond the sensational plots. Elizabeth J. Scott-Baumann, Literary Criticism, TLS no 5421

Long Description

The sensational narratives of John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas Lodge established prose fiction as an independent genre in the late sixteenth century. The texts they created are a paradoxical blend of outrageous plotting and rhetorical sophistication, high and low culture. Although their works were feverishly devoured by contemporary readers, these writers are usually only known to students as sources for Shakespearean comedy. Fictions of Authorship in LateElizabethan Narratives re-examines some of the pamphleteers earlier critics christened the 'University Wits', young professionals who exposed their education and talents to the still new and uncertain world of mass market publication. These texts chart their authors' disenchantment with the limitations ofromance and of their own careers, yet they also form an alternative canon of vernacular writing, which is both self-referential and self-questioning. Shocking, unpredictable, and very engaging, these narratives provide a vivid commentary on the interface between popular taste and 'English literature'.

Review Quote

Wilson's book is a fine, well-written piece of scholarship that deserves to be read by every scholar of early modern English literature.

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Introduction 1. Harvey's Gascoigne 2. Lyly and Mamillia 3. Greene's Alternative Anthologies 4. Greene's Glucupilica 5. Lodge's Arden and America Conclusion

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The book focuses on the cross-over between high and low literary culture in the late Elizabethan period, as expressed in the prose fictions of John Lyly, Robert Greene, and Thomas LodgeExamining the pulp fiction of the late sixteenth century, Wilson demonstrates the influence these works had on Shakespearean comedyWilson shows how the prose fictions of Lyly, Greene, and Lodge form an important part of the history of the novel

Details ISBN019925253X Author Katharine Wilson Short Title FICTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP IN LATE Language English ISBN-10 019925253X ISBN-13 9780199252534 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 823.309 Year 2006 Series Oxford English Monographs Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Euphues in Arcadia Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations Affiliation Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers DOI 10.1604/9780199252534 UK Release Date 2006-02-23 AU Release Date 2006-02-23 NZ Release Date 2006-02-23 Edited by Jean Orsoni Birth 1955 Death 1975 Position Instructor Qualifications QC Pages 196 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2006-02-23 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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