An anthology of seventeenth-century fiction
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An anthology of seventeenth-century fiction
(Oxford world's classics)
Oxford University Press, 2001, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Few readers today are aware of the vigorous prose experiments undertaken in the seventeenth century. This anthology presents a representative selection of that work, with examples from Aphra Benn, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Percy Herbert, and Thomas Dangerfield. Also included are Mary Wroth's feminist romance Urania and Margaret Cavendish's female utopia The Blazing World , in print here for the first time since their original publication.
Table of Contents
- Mary Wroth: Urania, Book One
- Percy Herbert: from The Princess Cloria
- Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World
- Thomas Dangerfield: Don Tomazo
- John Bunyan: from Mr Badman
- William Congreve: Incognita
- Aphra Behn: The Unfortunate Happy Lady
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