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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Muse in Good Humour: Or, a Collection of Comic Tales. By the Most Eminent Poets. The Sixth Edition
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Author: The Muse in Good Humour
Author: The Muse in Good Humour: Or, a Collection of Comic Tales. By the Most Eminent Poets. The Sixth Edition
Author: MUSE.Eighteenth-century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859913090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden. Although most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of an anonymous Miller's Tale (1791) with a thoughtful preface justifying the tale's overt sexuality published just as William Lipscomb was completing his 1795 edition that, in its preface, justifies exclusion from the pilgrimage of the notorious tales of Miller and Reeve. Such contrasting attitudes illustrate the dangers of generalisation about the usual reception or interpretation of Chaucer during this or any other socio-historic period; instead, the collection provides an untapped reservoir of material with which to investigate anew the rich complexity of his poetry and its enduring appeal. BETSY BOWDEN is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
The Muse in Good Humour
Author: Multiple ContributorsPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379966746
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T041630 London: printed for F. Noble, and J. Noble, 1751. [2],329, [3]p., plate; 12°
The Muse in Good Humor Or a Collection of Comic Tales: By the Most Eminent Poets (1745)
Author: Noble J. NoblePublisher:
ISBN: 9781104569907
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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