Elizabethan Fictions Espionage, Counter-Espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives |
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Author:
| Maslen, R. W. |
Series title: | Oxford English Monographs |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-811991-3 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $269.00AUD $244.55 |
Book Description:
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Sexual intrigue, domestic espionage, the leaking of highly sensitive information: these were the topics of the experimental prose fiction of the 1550s. Robert Maslen's book provides a much-needed reappraisal of one of the most daringly innovative epochs in the history of the novel, through a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers of the period.
Sexual intrigue, domestic espionage, the leaking of highly sensitive information: these were the topics of the experimental prose fiction of the 1550s. Robert Maslen's book provides a much-needed reappraisal of one of the most daringly innovative epochs in the history of the novel, through a study of the works of John Lyly, George Gascoigne, Geoffrey Fenton, William Baldwin, and a number of other English writers of the period.