The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 16) - Softcover

 
9780521038706: The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 16)
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ISBN 10: 0521038707 ISBN 13: 9780521038706
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

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 worlds? The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World brings together ten new 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 new 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 nonliterary to reflect on the medium's intersections with history, fiction, subjectivity, the state, science, and other aspects of social and cultural life. Overall, this 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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Book Description

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? In this wide-ranging study leading scholars of the early modern literatures of Europe and the colonial Americas address such questions. They consider familiar and lesser-known prose works, and reflect on prose's intersections with social and cultural life. Overall, they demonstrate the increasing visibility and diversity of prose as a medium in the early modern period.

Review

"...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

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521038707
ISBN 13 
9780521038706
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
220
Editor
Fowler Elizabeth, Greene Roland

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