Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the fabulous dark cloister: Fabulous texts
  • Fabulous romance and abortive reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
  • Saint or martyr? reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles
  • Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene
  • "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
  • Coda: exceptional romance.