Article: Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-Espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives and History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe.

 
Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-Espionage and the Duplicity 
of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives. By R. W. Maslen. 
(Oxford English Monographs) 
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. viii + 320 pp. [pound]40. 
 
History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe. 
By Robert Mayer. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and 
Thought, 33) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University 
Press. 1997. xii +246 pp. [pound]37.50;$59.95. 

Both books reviewed here offer insightful commentaries on the early 'novel', its antecedents, contextual resonances, generic fluidity, and later development. Concentrating mainly on ...

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