The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 248
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0521481112
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9005
EAN: 9780521481113
ASIN: 0521481112
Publication Date: March 29, 1996
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Product Description
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.
Book Description
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.
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A Model of Scholarship March 18, 2006
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This is a very well written book by a scholar who is clearly master of her material. The book surveys the translations of Aesop (or rather, of the collections of fables that were attributed to Aesop) that competed for English readers for the better part of a century. The book is particularly good with the three major collections--those by Ogilby, L'Estrange, and Croxall--and deals very nicely with Samuel Richardson's arbitration between the Stuart L'Estrange and the Hanoverian Croxall. Lewis herself recommends Annabel Patterson's FABLES OF POWER as a turning point in Aesop scholarship, a well deserved tribute, but this book is no less valuable and important. Like Patterson's study, it pays due attention to the LIFE of Aesop as it morphed through the decades.
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