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.
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.
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Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
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.
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.
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