Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651–1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 28)
Between 1651 and 1740 hundreds of fables, fable collections, and biographies of the ancient Greek slave Aesop were published in England. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis decribes the explosion of interest in fable from its origins at the end of the English Civil Wars to its decline, and shows how three Augusta...
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