Download or read book Seventeenth-Century English Romance written by A. Zurcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overturning the common characterization of Seventeenth Century English prose romance as an exhausted, imitative genre with little bearing on the evolution of the novel, this book argues that early modern romance was a central forum for exploring the newly pressing moral-philosophical and political problem of self-interest.