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Table of contents for The fall of women in early English narrative verse / Gotz Schmitz.

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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Dido and Elissa: heroic and elegiac treatment of a legendary queen
3. Philomela and Lucretia: classical heroines in English complaints
4. Rosamond and virgin queen: heroines from British legend and history
5. Susanna and the Magdalen: religious epyllia and complaints
6. Violenta and Amanda: the novelistic complaint
7. Commiseration and imagination: reflections on the elegiac narrative mode
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism, Women in literature, English poetry Classical influences, Elegiac poetry, English History and criticism, Complaint poetry, English History and criticism, Narrative poetry, English History and criticism, English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism