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A. Zurcher
Seventeenth-Century English Romance [PDF ebook]
Allegory, Ethics, and Politics

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Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.

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Allegory, Costancy and the Politic Agent Incest, Rivalry, and Succession: Romance and the Problem of Sociability The Trials of Love: Interest and Social Bonds in Mid-Century Romance Interest, the Sovereign Hero, and the End of Romance

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AMELIA ZURCHER is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, USA.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 226 ● ISBN 9780230605138 ● File size 1.5 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2306818 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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