Beware the Cat: The First English Novel - Couverture souple

Baldwin, William; Ringler Jr., William A.; Flachmann, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0873281543 ISBN 13 : 9780873281546

Editeur : Huntington Library Press,US, 1995

Synopsis

This is the earliest original piece of long prose fiction in English. It has the distinction of being the first English 'novel', far surpassing in narrative sophistication such immediate predecessors as Elyot's Image of Governance or Borde's Scoggin's Jests. This edition, besides providing a modernising text of the novel, also identifies the pseudonymous author of Beware the Cat as William Baldwin, better known as editor and principal author of the enormously popular Mirror for Magistrates (1559). The development of early English prose fiction is thoroughly documented in two informative and wide-ranging appendices. William Baldwin's place in this tradition, as well as his innovative narrative art, is discussed in the introduction, which also provides biographical information on the author, historical background to his novel, and an insight into the political and religious turmoil of the middle years of the sixteenth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Huntington Library Press,US
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0873281543
• ISBN 13: 9780873281546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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