The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- ISBN 9780198746843
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 253x180x45 mm
- Weight 1358 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations 776
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history, stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of the last Stuart monarch.
MoreLong description:
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 is the most wide-ranging overview available of prose writing in English during one of the most tumultuous periods in British and Irish history. Stretching from the outbreak of the English Civil Wars to the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, the volume is unprecedented in the breadth of its coverage of an age in which prose moved from the margins of cultural life in Britain to its centre.
The volume also breaks new ground in the diversity of the prose writing it covers: its thirty-six chapters by an array of established literary critics and historians capture the excitingly multiple forms that prose took in what was a golden age for non-fictional writing, but which also saw the emergence of modes of prose fiction that became part of the origin story of the eighteenth-century novel. This Handbook reflects that multiplicity and diversity in its structure. Four longer introductory chapters map the changing contexts of the publication and reception of prose in the period, as well as the influence of the classical heritage and the role of relations with continental Europe. The subsequent thirty-two chapters are organized by different categories of prose writing. The contributors approach key authors and texts from various and often unconventional perspectives. The volume offers coverage of well-known writers and texts while also capturing the assortment of prose writing in a time of rapid political and social change: there are chapters on, for example, 'Bites and Shams'; 'Circulation Narratives'; 'Keys'; 'Pornography'; 'Recipe Books'; 'True Accounts', and even 'Handbooks'.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: An Age of Prose
Part I: Contexts
Circulation
Reception
Classical Inheritance
Continental Influences
Part II: Categories
Amatory Fiction
Antiquarian Writing
Biography and Autobiography
Bites and Shams
Brief Lives and Characters
Circulation Narratives and Spy Literature
Criminal Literature
Diaries
Dissenting Writing
Encounters with the East
Essays
Fables and Fairy Tales
Handbooks
Heresiography and Religious Controversy
Histories
Keys
Learned Wit and Mock Scholarship
Letters
Literary History
Mock-Scientific Literature
New World Writing and Captivity Narratives
Periodical Literature
Political Debate
Political Speculations
Pornography
Radical and Deist Writing
Recipe Books
Religious Autobiography
Scientific Transactions
Secret Histories
Sermons
True Accounts
