A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia

by Anna Weamys

Book Overview

Anna Weamys's A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia is a woman's contribution to one of the dominant genres of her sex's readership in the seventeenth century: the heroic romance. Part of the considerable power and appeal of this work is its reduction of the heroic romance to a smaller scale. In its shorter length and its comparatively direct style, it avoids the fustian and bloat of the form. At the same time, it elaborates on the genre's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195078845
• ISBN13: 9780195078848
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"