Project of Prose Early Mod Europe: 16 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Fowler, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521038707 ISBN 13: 9780521038706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? And how did it operate in the literary and social world? The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World brings together ten essays by leading scholars of the literatures of England, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and the colonial Americas, to answer these questions in wide-ranging ways. Several of the essays shed light on landmark prose works of the period; some discuss what lesser-known writings reveal about the medium; others move between the literary and the non-literary to reflect on the medium's intersections with history, fiction, subjectivity, the state, science and other aspects of social and cultural life. Overall, this 1997 collection will provoke an international reconsideration of the remarkable visibility and diversity of the medium of prose in the early modern period.

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"...they have given teachers and scholars an attractive and useful collection; this reviewer knows of no closely parallel volume. Recommended for graduate and research collections." E.D. Hill, Choice

Book Description

What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? How did it operate in the literary and social world? In this 1997 book, leading scholars of the literatures of Europe and the Americas demonstrate the increasing importance and diversity of prose in the early modern period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521038707
• ISBN 13: 9780521038706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220