Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

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Romance for Sale in Early Modern England is written by Steve Mentz and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754654699 (ISBN 10) and 9780754654698 (ISBN 13).

Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.