A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
by
Weamys
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Women Writers in English 1350-1850
ISBN-10
0195087194
ISBN-13
9780195087192
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 1995
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.00 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Anne Weamys's Arcadia offers an alternate perspective on the genre of historical romance. Shorter and comparatively more direct than the form of its derivation, the Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia exploits the genre's capacity for fantasy and nuance while celebrating its more subversive uses as political statement.
Anne 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 stronger points--its playfulness and fantasy, its explorations of the nuances of sensibility--while not sacrificing its capacity for political statement. Arcadia is an interesting and accessible story that can be read in a single sitting.
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