Seventeenth-century fiction : text and transmission / Jacqueline Glomski and Isabelle Moreau

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glomski, Jacqueline L., 1951- editor.

Moreau, Isabelle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--17th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Fiction.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A multi-authored study of the emergence and transmission of fictional writing in in Europe in the 17th century, with the aim of improving understanding of the origins of the novel.

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.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 14, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-180074-0