The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Book

Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. In The English Fable, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis describes 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 non-literary forms, fable is shown to have played a major role in the formation of modern English culture.Read More

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  • 0521025311
  • 9780521025317
  • Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
  • 30 March 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 248
  • New Ed
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