Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Chapter 1 The Pastoral Romance Heroine in English Renaissance Literature 1
6. Chapter 2 The Arcadian Prison: Chastity and the Defense of the Princesses in Sidney’s Two Arcadias 41
7. Chapter 3 Spenser’s Romance Heroines: The Heroic and the Pastoral in Books 3 and 6 of The Faerie Queene 86
8. Chapter 4 Growing Out of Pastoral: Wroth’s Urania and the Female Pastoral Career 107
9. Chapter 5 Fletcher’s Clorin and Milton’s Lady : The Performance of Chastity in Pastoral Drama 142
10. Chapter 6 Milton’s Eve and Marvell’s Maria Fairfax: Wives and Daughters in the Pastoral Family Circle 180
11. Bibliography 227
12. Index 239