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Elizabethan Fictions - Espionage, Counter-espionage, and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives (Hardcover, New)
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Elizabethan Fictions - Espionage, Counter-espionage, and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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In Elizabethan Fictions, Robert Maslen argues that English writers
of prose fiction from the 1550s to the 15570s produced some of the
most daringly innovative publications of the sixteenth century.
Through close examination of a number of key texts, from William
Baldwin's satircal fable Beware the Cat to George Gascoigne's
mock-romance he Adventures of Master F.J. and John Lyly's immensely
popular Euphues books, he sets out to demonstrate the courage as
well as the considerable skills which these undervalued authors
brought to their work. They wrote at a time when the Elizabethan
censorship system was growing increasingly rigorous in response to
the perceived threat of infiltration from Catholic Europe, yet they
chose to write books of a kind that was specifically associated
with Catholic Italy and France. Their topics were the secrets,
lies, and acts of petty treason which vitiated the private lives of
the contemporary ruling classes, and their vigorous experiments
with style and form marked out prose fiction for years to come as
shifty and perilous literary territory. These writers presented
themselves as masters of the arts of duplicity, whose talents made
them emminently suitable for employment as informers or spies,
whether for the government or for its most deadly ideological
opponents. Their sophisticated narratives of sexual intrigue had a
profound effect on the development of the complex poetry and drama
which sprung up towards the end of the century, as well as of the
modern novel. This book provides a much-needed reappraisal of their
achievements.
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