A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
Anne Weamys author Patrick Colborn Cullen editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:23rd Mar '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
Anna Weamys's continuation of the New Arcadia in Patrick Cullen's splendid edition is a major and very attractive addition to this emerging archive of Renaissance women's writing. * Renaissance Quarterly *
ISBN: 9780195087192
Dimensions: 208mm x 138mm x 21mm
Weight: 363g
288 pages