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Paul Salzman
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An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Fiction
Автор: Paul Salzman Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2001 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20092006-08-24
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Few readers today are aware of the vigorous prose experiments undertaken in the seventeenth century. This anthology presents a representative selection of that work, with examples from Aphra Benn, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Percy Herbert, and Thomas Dangerfield. Also included are Mary Wroth's feminist romance Urania and Margaret Cavendish's female utopia «The Blazing World», in print here for the first time since their original publication.
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Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Автор: Paul Salzman Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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These five works — George Gascoigne's «The Adventures of Master F. J»; John Lyly's «Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit»; Robert Greene's «Pandosto. The Triumph of Time»; Thomas Nashe's «The Unfortunate Traveller» and Thomas Deloney's «Jack of Newbury» — represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. «The Adventures of Master F. J.» is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In «Euphues» John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. «Pandosto» was Shakespeare's source for «The Winter's Tale», but Greene's is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. «The Unfortunate Traveller» marks the peak of Nashe's gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. «Jack of Newbury» dedicated to 'All famous cloth Workers in England', sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue.
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