1st Edition

Novel and Society in Elizabethan England

By David Margolies Copyright 1985
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

The Elizabethans witnessed not only a great flowering of drama, but also a flourishing of fiction and the development of a literary entertainment business. Printing made possible a wide distribution of cheap books that found an audience in all sections of society. The large, new literary market enabled the presentation of different social viewpoints and encouraged an alternative to ‘official’... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction  2. The social position of the writer  3. Establishing the conventions for printed fiction  4. John Lyly  5. Philip Sidney  6. Thomas Nashe  7. Robert Greene  8. Thomas Deloney  9. Conclusion 

Biography

David Margolies is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.