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A Model of Scholarship,
This review is from: The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) (Hardcover)
This is a very well written book by a scholar who is clearly master of her material. The book surveys the translations of Aesop (or rather, of the collections of fables that were attributed to Aesop) that competed for English readers for the better part of a century. The book is particularly good with the three major collections--those by Ogilby, L'Estrange, and Croxall--and deals very nicely with Samuel Richardson's arbitration between the Stuart L'Estrange and the Hanoverian Croxall. Lewis herself recommends Annabel Patterson's FABLES OF POWER as a turning point in Aesop scholarship, a well deserved tribute, but this book is no less valuable and important. Like Patterson's study, it pays due attention to the LIFE of Aesop as it morphed through the decades.
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The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis (Hardcover - March 29, 1996)
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