オックスフォード版 近世英国散文ハンドブック1640-1714年 The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 (Oxford Handbooks)

McDowell, Nicholas (EDT)/ Power, Henry (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 688 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198746843
• DDC分類 828.409

Full 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'.

Contents

Nicholas McDowell and Henry Power: Introduction: An Age of Prose
Part I: Contexts
1: Thomas Keymer: Circulation
2: Cynthia Wall: Reception
3: Freyja Cox Jensen: Classical Inheritance
4: Alexis Tadié: Continental Influences
Part II: Categories
5: Melissa E. Sanchez: Amatory Fiction
6: Thomas Roebuck: Antiquarian Writing
7: Julie A. Eckerle: Biography and Autobiography
8: John McTague: Bites and Shams
9: Kate Bennett: Brief Lives and Characters
10: Andrea Haslanger: Circulation Narratives and Spy Literature
11: Pat Rogers: Criminal Literature
12: Adam Smyth: Diaries
13: Nicholas Seager: Dissenting Writing
14: Matthew Dimmock: Encounters with the East
15: Kathryn Murphy: Essays
16: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis: Fables and Fairy Tales
17: Paddy Bullard: Handbooks
18: Nicholas McDowell: Heresiography and Religious Controversy
19: Niall Allsopp: Histories
20: Nicholas McDowell: Keys
21: Henry Power: Learned Wit and Mock Scholarship
22: Diana G. Barnes: Letters
23: Nick Hardy: Literary History
24: Greg Lynall: Mock-Scientific Literature
25: Catherine Armstrong: New World Writing and Captivity Narratives
26: Brian Cowan: Periodical Literature
27: Mark Knights: Political Debate
28: Nigel Smith: Political Speculations
29: Hal Gladfelder: Pornography
30: Nicholas McDowell and Giovanni Tarantino: Radical and Deist Writing
31: Henry Power: Recipe Books
32: Brooke Conti: Religious Autobiography
33: Felicity Henderson: Scientific Transactions
34: Rebecca Bullard: Secret Histories
35: Warren Johnston: Sermons
36: Sophie Gee: True Accounts