附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-171) and index.
Introduction: Elizabethan Contexts and Generic Anxiety -- 1. Prose, Poetry, and Popular Authority -- 2. Borrowed Authority: Appropriating "Italian Histories" -- 3. Constructing Voice, Subverting Narrative -- 4. Gender, Empowerment, and the Construction of Character -- 5. Authorizing Landscapes: The Power of Place -- 6. Constructing the Alien, Authorizing the Self -- Conclusion: Novelistic Discourse and the Problem of Realism.