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The English fable : Aesop and literary culture, 1651-1740 /

Основен автор: Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Серия: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 28.
Предмети:
Dryden, John, > 1631-1700. > Fables ancient and modern.
Gay, John, > 1685-1732. > Fables.
Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, > Countess of, > 1661-1720 > Criticism and interpretation.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Fables, English > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Fables, Greek > Appreciation > Great Britain.
English literature > Greek influences.
Animals in literature.
Онлайн достъп: Publisher description
Table of contents
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: the English fable
  • Aesopian examples: the English fable collection and its authors, 1651-1740
  • "The first pieces of wit": Augustan fable theory and the birth of the book
  • Common and uncommon characters: the lives of Aesop
  • Brutal transactions, "mysterious writ": Aesop's fables and Dryden's later poetry
  • In her "transparent laberynth": obstructions of poetic justice in Anne Finch's fables
  • Risking contradiction: John Gay's Fables and the matter of reading
  • The moral.

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