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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Cover; Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Seventeenth-Century Fiction in the Making; PART I: TEXT; 1: Romance and the Reinvention of Wonder in the Early Seventeenth Century; 2: The English Afterlife of a French Magician The Life and Death of Lewis Gaufredy (1612); 3: Politics and Passion: Fact and Fiction in Barclay's Argenis; 4: Criti-Comic Demonology: Picaresque Novels, Histoires Comiques, and the Supernatural |
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BARCLAY'S PSEUDO-GHOSTS: MENIPPEAN SATIRE AND THE ERASMIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST SUPERSTITIONCERVANTES'S PSEUDO-WITCH: PICARESQUE NARRATIVE AND THE FANTASTIC OF DEMONOLOGY; CLAIREVILLE'S PSEUDO-POSSESSION: COMIC HISTORY AS TRAINING FOR INCREDULITY; FROM MAKE-BELIEVE TO MAKING DOUBT; 5: Fact and Fiction in the Works of Madame de Lafayette: A Poetics of Secrets and Gossip; 'ROMAN', 'NOUVELLE', 'MÉMOIRES': GENRES WITH COMMON CHARACTERISTICS?; 'Mémoires', or the Private Life of a Public Person; Fictitious Stories with a Historical Substratum |
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A NOTION OF THE NOVELISTIC SITUATED BETWEEN FACT AND FICTIONON THE BOUNDARIES: THE WRITING OF ANECDOTE AND SECRET HISTORY; Part II: Transmission; 6: Transnational Cervantes: Text, Performance, and Transmission in the World of Don Quixote; Introduction; The Lifecycles of Books; Hispano-Italian and Hispano-Moorish Migrations; Transnational Approval and Reinvention; Quixote in Performance; Conclusion; 7: Fact and Fiction in Susan Du Verger's Translations of Jean-Pierre Camus's Les Euenemens singuliers, Les Relations morales, and Diotrephe. Histoire Valentine |
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8: Marketing Aspiration: Fact, Fiction, and the Publication of French Romance in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England9: Admirable Inventions: Francis Kirkman and the Translation of Romance in the 1650s; The Famous and Renowned History of Amadis De Gaule; The Loves and Adventures of Clerio and Lozia; 10: From Boccaccio to the Incogniti: The Cultural Politics of the Italian Tale in English Translation in the Seventeenth Century; 11: 'Bring(ing) Forth Alive the Conceptions of the Brain': The Transmission of French to English Fiction between Stage and Page; Bibliography; Primary sources |
| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed September 21, 2016) |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Fiction
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Glomski, Jacqueline L., 1951- editor.
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Moreau, Isabelle, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191800740 |
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0191800740 |
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