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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
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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.