https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25523 Tue 17 Jan 2017 07:59:12 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31204 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:45 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31206 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:45 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31208 Cambridge PhD,” he kept telling me.) In the course of doggedly reading all the prose fiction written in the seventeenth century, I had come across Mary Wroth’s Urania, which I treated initially as nothing more exciting than yet another romance indebted to Sidney’s Arcadia. The great attraction of Urania was that King’s College had a copy of it, so that I could read it far more easily than the numerous works I had been reading on microfilm, and usually negative microfilm at that. I also read the manuscript continuation of Urania in a copy kindly supplied to me by Katherine Duncan-Jones. The price for that was being inadvertently caught in the middle of one of many disputes between Duncan-Jones and Peter Croft, the irascible librarian at King’s, who disagreed about everything, including whether or not the Urania manuscript was in Wroth’s hand. In an example of what I would now refer to as distracted reading, I seized on the idea that Urania contained allusions to Jacobean scandals, something that had been noted by the sparse existing critical commentary on Wroth’s romance from the DNB, Brigid McCarthy, and, in a brief 1975 piece by Graham Parry. Reference was made to the exchange between Wroth and Edward Denny over the depiction in Urania of Denny’s family scandal involving his daughter Honora.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:44 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31196 Love's Victory through a comparison with As You Like It. I am not arguing that Shakespeare's play had any direct influence on Wroth, but I want to posit a rewriting of certain pastoral attitudes toward gender roles in Wroth's play, and this rewriting becomes clearer when As You Like It can stand as a touchstone for a number of pastoral themes. Like all examples of the pastoral, Love's Victory is extremely self-conscious about the genre itself and forms part of Wroth's complex engagement with the work of her uncle Philip Sidney, whose pastoral writing is already conscious of a certain belatedness-although it could be argued that pastoral always has a sense of belatedness (see Alphers 1997, ch. 2).]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:42 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31197 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:42 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31808 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:42:49 AEDT ]]>