Jayne Elizabeth Lewis (Los Angeles University of California)

The English Fable

Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651 1740
Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1651 and 1740 there was in England an explosion of interest in Aesop's fables, and in the fable as a literary form. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis shows how the fable, often underestimated because of its links with popular non-literary forms, played a major role in the formation of modern English culture.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780521025317
• ISBN-10: 0521025311
• Artikelnr.: 21102180

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The English fable
1. Aesopiean examples: the English fable collection and its authors, 1651-1740
2. 'The first pieces of wit': Augustan fable theory and the birth of the book
3. Common and uncommon characters: the lives of Aesop
4. Brutal transactions, 'mysterious writ': Aesop's fables and Dryden's later poetry
5. In her 'transparent Laberynth': obstructions of poetic justice in Anne Finch's fables
6. Risking contradiction: John Gay's Fables and the matter of reading
7. The moral
Notes
Bibliography
Index.