“A book that all have heard of . . . but that nobody reads”: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia in the eighteenth century
In 1804, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia was described as “a book that all have heard of, that some few possess, but that nobody reads.” Indeed, the usual critical narrative has Philip Sidney’s romance falling sharply out of fashion in the eighteenth century from its height in the mid-seventeenth...
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Duke University Press
2020
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