Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: FABULOUS TEXTS -- 1 Fabulous Romance and Abortive Reform in Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser -- 2 Saint or Martyr? Reforming the Romance Heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- PART II: SUPERSTITIOUS READERS -- 3 Glozing Phantastes in The Faerie Queene -- 4 "Soundly washed" or Interpretively Redeemed? Labor and Reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: Exceptional Romance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.