Elizabethan Fictions

Maslen, R.W.

ISBN 10: 0198119917 / ISBN 13: 9780198119913

Published by Oxford University Press, 1997

About this Item

Part of the OXFORD ENGLISH MONOGRAPHS series offering a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin and others in the context of changing attitudes to fiction in Elizabethan England and exploring their violations of current conventions, mockery of platitudes, self-conscious stylishness and subtlety. Series: Oxford English Monographs. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. . 1997. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elizabethan Fictions
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198119917
• ISBN 13: 9780198119913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Elizabethan Fictions is a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers in the context of changing attitudes to fiction in Elizabethan England. Both the censors and the writers of the time were aware that the developments in Elizabethan prose threatened to transform the nature of fiction itself, and it was felt that these destructive capabilities might constitute a material threat to the security of the Elizabethan state. Maslen explores their violations of current conventions, their mockery of contemporary platitudes, their self-conscious stylishness, and their subtlety, and makes the case for these fictions to be seen as the precursors of Shakespeare's comedies, Sidney's prose epics, and the satires of Marlowe and Nashe.

About the Author

Robert Maslen is at University of Glasgow.