Idea and Act in Elizabethan Fiction [Paperback]

Represents an attempt to apply the techniques of modern literary criticism to the fiction of the Elizabethan period. The author tries to determine what Elizabethan fiction writers were trying to do and how they did it.

Originally published in 1969.

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