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29 - English Language and Literature
University of St Andrews
Renaissance Historical Fiction : Sidney, Deloney, Nashe
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.