Right romance : heroic subjectivity and elect community in seventeenth-century England /
In this book, Emily Griffiths Jones examines the intersections of romance, religion, and politics in England between 1588 and 1688 to show how writers during this politically turbulent time used the genre of romance to construct diverse ideological communities for themselves. Right Romance argues fo...
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : getting romance right
- Protestant re-visions of romance : Philip Sidney's New Arcadia and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
- "Heroical" histories : writing lives into national romance, 1648-1670
- The fall and pinnacle : Milton's righting of romance in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
- "My victorious triumphs are all thine" : the politics of love and elect community in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder
- "In the Next World" : John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, and the imitation of romance
- Conclusion.