Writing for Women: The Example of Woman as Reader in Elizabethan Romance

Amphiarus appears Arcadia authority Barnaby Rich become Camma chaste chastity complete Cranfill death demonstrates discourse Elizabethan Elizabethan fiction Elizabethan Prose Fiction Elizabethan romance England English Renaissance Euarchus Euphues example female characters feminist critical Gentlewomen George Pettie Greek romance Greene's Harlequin hath heroine husband Ibid implied reader interpretive community John Lyly Julina Lady literary literature lovers lust Lyly male Mamillia Margaret marriage married Mary Mary Sidney meaning mirror misogyny Musidorus narrative narrator Old Arcadia Ovid Ovid's Oxford Painter Palmerin passion patriarchal Penelope Petite Pallace Pettie Pettie's Philomela Phylotus plot popular precisely preface princes Pyrocles rape reader-response reader-response criticism reprinted London reprinted New York response Rich's Robert Greene role romance reading romantic fiction Schibanoff sexual shee Sidney's Arcadia Silla Sinorix sixteenth century sources story suggests sutch Tereus Toril Moi virtue virtuous Walter Davis wife woman women readers words writing