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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Language: | English |
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2016
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