Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of St Andrews
Book title
Renaissance Historical Fiction : Sidney, Deloney, Nashe
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
D S Brewer
ISBN of book
978-1-84384-268-2
Year of publication
2011
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Renaissance Historical Fiction is a substantial monograph: 114,000 words and 7 years in the writing. It is the first full-length study of sixteenth-century historical prose fiction. It offers an in-depth examination of 13 separate texts, both canonical (Sidney’s Arcadia) and almost entirely un-studied (the anonymous Dobson’s Dry Bobs and the Famous History of Friar Bacon), and it does so in the service of an extensive thesis that seeks to re-evaluate traditional narratives about the rise of a new historical consciousness in the Renaissance. As a crude indication of its scope, the bibliography comprises some 136 primary and 307 secondary sources.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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