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The English Fable : Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
The English Fable Aesop and Literary Culture 16511740 - Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Author: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521481113
ISBN-10: 0521481112
Publication Date: 3/29/1996
Pages: 234
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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