Dissimulating romance: the ethics of deception in seventeenth-century prose romance

<p>This thesis argues that seventeenth-century English prose romances are motivated by anxieties over truth-telling and the ethical practice of deception. From the title of MacKenzie's <em>'Aretina: A Serious Romance'</em> (1660), I take the collocation 'serious...

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Main Author: Christie, E
Other Authors: Moore, H
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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