Various kinds of evidence support the view of Louis Wright and others that the commercial success of Renaissance romances was attributable to a new female readership.
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Books and reading, English Love stories, English fiction, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Love stories, English, Renaissance, Women, Women and literature, English drama, history and criticism, to 1500, Romance literature, history and criticism, English Romance fiction, English literature, Romance-language fiction, Women authorsPlaces
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Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
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Women and romance fiction in the English Renaissance
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Table of Contents
The readership of Renaissance romance
Renaissance romance and modern romance
Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s
Spanish and Portuguese romances
Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene
The Arcadia : readership and authorship
The Arcadia : heroines
The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare's romance sources
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
Epilogue, the later seventeenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and index.
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