"Love is a subject so delightful"concepto y casuística del amor en el mundo pastoril de la "Urania" de Mary Wroth
ISSN: 1133-0392
Datum der Publikation: 2002
Nummer: 10
Seiten: 261-282
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense
Zusammenfassung
In spite of the general idea that the pastoral mode is superficial and escapist in the negative sense, it is actually a type of writing which authors from antiquity to the present day have used for social, political and moral purposes. Due to its classical origin, the mode was highly regarded during the Renaissance, when it was cultivated by most of the best writers. Apart from being used with ideological aims, pastoral was a common mode to deal with the concept and casuistry of love. The first Englishwoman who wrote prose fiction was Mary Wroth, whose Urania (1621) is a pastoral-chivalric romance mainly modelled on Sidney¿s Arcadia but with more...