The Reformation of Romance : : The Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction /

The Reformation of Romance : : The Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction / / Christina Wald.

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This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More specifically, it argues that Elizabethan narratives adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Wald, Christina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 44
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements of Rights
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 The Eucharist in Early Modern England: Theological Controversies and Liturgical Reform
  • 1.2 William Baldwin: Beware the Cat (1553/70)
  • 2. Disguise and Identity Transformation in Elizabethan Pastoral Romances
  • 2.1 Robert Greene: Pandosto: The Triumph of Time (1585 or 1588) and Menaphon: Camilla’s Alarum to Slumbering Euphues in His Melancholy Cell at Silexadra (1589)
  • 2.2 Philip Sidney: The Old Arcadia (c. 1580) and The New Arcadia (1590
  • 2.3 Thomas Lodge: Rosalynd: Euphues’ Golden Legacy (1590) and A Margarite of America (1596)
  • 3. Foreign Fashion and the Transubstantiation of Englishness
  • 3.1 George Gascoigne: The Steele Glas (1576)
  • 3.2 John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578, expanded 1579) and Euphues and His England (1580)
  • 3.3 Barnabe Riche: Riche His Farewell to Military Profession (1581)
  • 3.4 Robert Greene: A Quip for an Upstart Courtier: Or, A Quaint Dispute between Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches (1592)
  • 3.5 Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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