A History of Augustan Fable (Paperback, Revised)

This book explores the tradition of fable across a wide variety of written and illustrative media, from its origins in classical antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond. It offers both a history and a poetics of the genre, presenting a body of evidence to show the stable and transhistorical qualities of fable, while showing that many individual writers consciously employed these qualities in dynamic and witty ways highly responsive to their own historical and cultural moment. Tracing the impact of classical and European models on verse and moral fables of the eighteenth century, and the use of the fable by major writers - including Dryden, Pope, Mandeville, Swift, Gay and Cowper - in their historical and literary contexts, Mark Loveridge offers a full account of a significant form of English and European literature and suggests new ways of reading eighteenth-century literature.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	October 2006
Authors:	Mark Loveridge
Dimensions:	227 x 151 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	296
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03228-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-521-03228-8
Barcode:	9780521032285

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