Sons and authors in Elizabethan England
"This study examines the lives and works of three Elizabethan authors - John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene - in order to trace an important transition in authorship at an historical moment in England. In sixteenth-century England "poetry" (in Sidney's inclusive sense of all fiction) was "juvenilia"--A youthful exercise that one gave up as one took one's place in the world as a responsible adult. There was consequently something of a stigma to writing fiction as an adult, and the notion of a "career" as a writer of poetry or fiction was virtually inconceivable
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, Cranbury, NJ, ©2004
Fictional works
197 pages ; 25 cm
9780874138580, 0874138582
52895512