Seventeenth-Century Fiction
Text and Transmission
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 June 2016
- ISBN 9780198737261
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 236x165x18 mm
- Weight 496 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A multi-authored study of the emergence and transmission of fictional writing in in Europe in the seventeenth century, with the aim of improving understanding of the origins of the novel.
MoreLong description:
In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have proliferated. Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text & Transmission responds to the present interest in the novel by offering a fresh approach to the history of early modern fiction that shifts away from the outmoded 'rise-of-the-novel' perspective and reaches beyond the boundaries of a single national literature. Starting from the literary text and looking outwards, this volume focuses on the changes in prose forms and their usage at a critical point in the evolution of modern fiction, and comes to grips with the instabilities of the novel and novella during this period. It explores the nature of seventeenth-century fiction and examines how authors fused fictional and non-fictional materials to create new, hybrid genres. Furthermore, it takes into consideration the cultural interchange between different geographical regions and languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Neo-Latin), and uncovers the deeper roots of seventeenth-century literary innovation, by casting light on the Continental influences on the formation of the English novel and on the role played by women's writings at the time. This landmark volume not only contributes to a more comprehensive history of the novel but promotes an authentic appreciation of early modern fiction.
A welcome addition to scholarship exploring the cross-pollination of genres in seventeenth-century prose fictions.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Text
Romance and the Reinvention of Wonder in the Early Seventeenth Century
The English Afterlife of a French Magician: The Life and Death of Lewis Gaufredy (1612)
Politics and Passion: Fact and Fiction in Barclay s argenis
Criti-Comic Demonology: Picaresque Novels, Histoires Comiques, and the Supernatural
Fact and Fiction in the Works of Madame de Lafayette: A Poetics of Secrets and Gossip
Part II: Transmission
Transnational Cervantes: Text, Performance, and Transmission in the World of Don Quixote
Fact and Fiction in Susan Du Verger s Translations of Jean-Pierre Camus s Les Euenemens singuliers, Les Relations morales, and Diotrephe. Histoire Valentine
Marketing Aspiration: Fact, Fiction, and the Publication of French Romance in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England
Admirable Inventions: Francis Kirkman and the Translation of Romance in the 1650s
From Boccaccio to the Incogniti: The Cultural Politics of the Italian Tale in English Translation in the Seventeenth Century
Bring(ing) Forth Alive the Conceptions of the Brain : The Transmission of French to English Fiction between Stage and Page
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