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9780803223943 Academic Inspection Copy

Love in a Green Shade

Idyllic Romances Ancient to Modern
  • ISBN-13: 9780803223943
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
  • By Richard F. Hardin
  • Price: AUD $127.00
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  • Local release date: 30/07/2000
  • Format: Hardback 279 pages Weight: 510g
  • Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]
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Love in a Green Shade examines for the first time in depth the reception history of Daphnis and Chloe in literature, beginning with its Renaissance rediscovery and working through its various transformations in English, French, Spanish, and other literatures. At the same time, Richard F. Hardin launches a groundbreaking exploration of the idyllic romance tradition in fiction and drama. While Virgil and Theocritus beget a tradition of poetry concerned with male eroticism, idyllic romance centers on the couple in a story pointing toward marriage. In addition to Daphnis and Chloe, this study considers numerous works influenced by the idyllic romance tradition, including Shakespeare's The Tempest, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bernardin's Paul et Virginie, Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island, Cather's O Pioneers!, novels by Sand, Hardy, and Pardo Bazan, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine, and Mishima's The Sound of Waves.
Richard F. Hardin is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His books include Civil Idolatry: Desacralizing and Monarchy in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton and Survivals of Pastoral.
Contents: I. Idyllic Romance II. Renaissance Rediscoveries III. Wit and Innocence IV. Paul, Virginia, and George V. Ladies of Maine: Three Generations VI. Spanish Idylls: Valera and Pardo Bazan VII. British Naturists VIII. Innocence and Radical Innocence IX. Points of Departure Notes List of Works Cited Index
Examines for the first time in depth the reception history of Daphnis and Chloe in literature, beginning with its Renaissance rediscovery and working through its various transformations in English, French, Spanish, and other literatures
"Hardin has a well-established reputation as a scholar of Renaissance literature, but in this book he shows a remarkable range... The dominant impression is of this book's variety rather than of any single thread of argument. Perhaps in that respect it is almost idyllic in itself, free to explore the ramifications of a classical genre which is subtly persistent, and still making itself felt in modern works ... " TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 18 August, 2000
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