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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32276263 Title: The English fable : Aesop and literary culture, 1651-1740 Author: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0521481112 9780521481113 OCLC:32276263

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The English fable : Aesop and literary culture, 1651-1740

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The English fable : Aesop and literary culture, 1651-1740

Author:	Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:	Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought, 28.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Parodies, imitations, etc
Named Person:	John Dryden; John Gay; Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea, Countess of; Aesop; Aesop; John Dryden; Anne Finch Winchilsea, Countess of; John (1631-1700) Dryden; 0620?-0560? av J -C Esope de Phrygie; Ésope; John Gay; Anne Finch Winchilsea, (comtesse de)); John Dryden; John Gay; Aesopus.
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Jayne Elizabeth Lewis Find more information about:
ISBN:	0521481112 9780521481113
OCLC Number:	32276263
Description:	x, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: the English fable -- Aesopian examples: the English fable collection and its authors, 1651-1740 -- "The first pieces of wit": Augustan fable theory and the birth of the book -- Common and uncommon characters: the lives of Aesop -- Brutal transactions, "mysterious writ": Aesop's fables and Dryden's later poetry -- In her "transparent laberynth": obstructions of poetic justice in Anne Finch's fables -- Risking contradiction: John Gay's Fables and the matter of reading -- The moral.
Series Title:	Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought, 28.
Responsibility:	Jayne Elizabeth Lewis.
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