Jan 1, 2010
Modern scholars have disagreed sharply over whether Renaissance prose fiction can best be seen as taking tentative steps toward the eighteenth century novel or whether it marks the end of the medieval tradition. As with most academic debates, both approaches are useful and depend on the critic’s perspective. In fact, in some limited but important ways, the state of prose fiction between the first use of movable type in England (1485) and the last decades of the seventeenth century is comparable to that in modern times. It was an era of deep-rooted sociocultural...
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