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The English Fable - Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The English Fable - Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
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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
national obsession with Aesop's fables during this period as both a
figural response to sociopolitical crises, and an antidote to
emerging anxieties about authorship. Lewis traces the role that
fable collections, Augustan fable theory, and debates about the
figure of Aesop played in the formation of a modern, literate, and
self-consciously English culture, and shows how three Augustan
writers - John Dryden, Anne Finch, and John Gay - experimented with
the seemingly marginal symbolic form of fable to gain access to new
centres of English culture. Often interpreted as a discourse of the
dispossessed, the fable in fact offered Augustan writers access to
a unique form of cultural authority.
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