Seventeenth-century fiction : text and transmission /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glomski, Jacqueline L., 1951- (Editor), Moreau, Isabelle (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Seventeenth-century fiction in the making / Isabelle Moreau
  • Part 1: Text
  • Romance and the reinvention of wonder in the early seventeenth century / Nandini Das
  • The English afterlife of a French magician: The Life and Death of Lewis Gaufredy (1612) / Thibaut Maus de Rolley
  • Politics and passion: fact and fiction in Barclays Agenis / Jacqueline Glomski
  • Criti-comic demonology: Picaresque novels, Histoires Comiques and the supernatural / Nicolas Correard
  • Fact and fiction in the works of Madame de Lafayette: a poetics of secrets and gossip / Camille Esmein-Sarrazin
  • Part 2: Transmission
  • Transnational Cervantes: Text, performance, and transmission in the world of Don Quixote / Warren Boutcher
  • Fact and fiction in Susan Du Verger's translations of Jean-Pierre Camus's Les Euenemens singuliers, Les Relations morales, and Diotrephe. Histoire Valentine / Brenda M. Hosington
  • Marking aspiration: fact, fiction, and the publication of French romance in mid-seventeeth-century England / Alice Eardley
  • Admirable inventions: Francis Kirkman and the translation of romance in the 1650s / Helen Moore
  • From Boccaccio to the Incogniti: the cultural politics of the Italian tale in English translation in the seventeenth century / Guyda Armstrong
  • 'Bring(ing) for alive the conceptions of the brain': the transmission of French to English fiction between stage and page / Ros Ballaster.