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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 English eighteenth century and beyond. Tracing the impact of classical models on verse and moral fables of the eighteenth century, and studying the use of the fable by major writers--including Dryden, Pope, Swift, Gay and Cowper--in their historical and literary contexts, Mark Loveridge offers the first full account of a highly significant form of English and European literature.
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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.
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