Beschreibung:
This bookanalyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in remaking Arcadia in five, canonical sixteenth-century texts: Sannazaro¿s Arcadia; Montemayor¿s La Diana; Cervantes¿La Galatea; Sidney¿s Arcadia; and Lope de Vegäs Arcadia. Collins¿ analyses of the re-imagined Arcadia in these works elucidate the interplay between timely incursions into the fictional world and the timelessness of art, highlighting issues of freedom, identity formation, subjectivity and self-fashioning, the intersection of public and private activity, and the fascination with mortality.
1. Weaving the Arcadian Tapestry 2. In the Ending is the Beginning: Sannazarös Arcadia (1504) 3. The Metamorphosis of Arcadia: Montemayor¿s La Diana (1559) 4. Romancing Arcadia: Cervantes¿ La Galatea (1585) 5. Romancing Arcadia: Sidney¿s Arcadia (1590) 6. Courting Arcadia: Lope¿s Arcadia (1598) Conclusion