The English Fable - Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Hardcover)


Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis decribes the explosion of interest in fable from its origins at the end of the English Civil Wars to its decline, and shows how three Augustan writers--John Dryden, Anne Finch and John Gay--experimented with fable as a literary form. Often underestimated because of its links with popular nonliterary forms, fable is shown to have played a major role in the formation of the modern English culture.

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Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis decribes the explosion of interest in fable from its origins at the end of the English Civil Wars to its decline, and shows how three Augustan writers--John Dryden, Anne Finch and John Gay--experimented with fable as a literary form. Often underestimated because of its links with popular nonliterary forms, fable is shown to have played a major role in the formation of the modern English culture.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Cambridge UniversityPress

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Release date

March 1996

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

1996

Authors

Dimensions

235 x 158 x 19mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

248

ISBN-13

978-0-521-48111-3

Barcode

9780521481113

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LSN

0-521-48111-2



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