The pastoral romance heroine in English Renaissance literature -- The Arcadian prison: chastity and the defense of the princesses in Sidney's two Arcadias -- Spenser's romance heroines: the heroic and the pastoral in books 3 and 6 of The fairie queene -- Growing out of pastoral: Wroth's Urania and the female pastoral career -- Fletcher's Clorin and Milton's lady: the performance of chastity in pastoral drama -- Milton's Eve and Marvell's Maria Fairfax: wives and daughters in the pastoral family circle
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English fiction-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism