The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which professional wri
In The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Rivlin explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. The early mo
This collection recovers the continuities between two modes of romance that have long been separated from one another in critical discourse: the prose fictions
In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional
Thomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His lon