Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
English
126 b
Delivery to Austria
Up to 30 days for returns
Customers also purchased
/
Paperback
24.89
€
/
Paperback
23.69
€
/
Paperback
10.69
€
/
Paperback
54.99
€
/
Paperback
54.99
€
/
Paperback
38.59
€
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.
About the book
English
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's addressYou might also be interested in
/
Paperback
21.89
€
/
Paperback
36.79
€
/
Paperback
21.09
€
/
Hardback
133.29
€
/
Hardback
120.99
€
Hi! I'm Libroamiko, your book advisor.
How can I help you?