| A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood Contributor(s): Mermier, Guy R. (Editor), Courtland, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820455652 ISBN-13: 9780820455655 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $85.03 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 822.3 |
| LCCN: 2001023436 |
| Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Physical Information: 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modern literary scholars have, for the most part, devoted little critical attention to that remarkable group of romance dramas featuring citizen heroes that flourished during the late Elizabethan period. Joseph Courtland's in-depth study remedies the situation by providing a fresh, cultural studies approach to this innovative hybrid of chivalric romance, viewing such adventure plays as literary works of colonial discourse within the mode of fantasy. Based principally on an approach to early modern romance as fantasy suggested by the writings of Tzvetan Todorov, Frederic Jameson, and Rosemary Jackson, the methodology employed in the analysis also incorporates the cultural materialist notion of Renaissance romance as colonial discourse. |