An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Paul Salzman

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction by Paul Salzman

These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. The Adventures of Master F. J. is a comedy of manners with a sting in its tail. In Euphues John Lyly invented a new, elaborate rhetorical style which delighted its Elizabethan audience and has been praised or parodied ever since. Pandosto was Shakespeare's source for The Winter's Tale, but Greene's is a darker story designed to shock the reader accustomed to romantic conventions. The Unfortunate Traveller marks the peak of Nashe's gift for literary pastiche, mixing picaresque narrative with mock-historical fantasy. Jack of Newbury dedicated to 'All famous cloth Workers in England', sums up important social contradictions in sharply observed comic scenes and brisk, witty dialogue.

Paul Salzman is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, as well as a Professor at Newcastle University in Newcastle, Australia. He has a large body of work on early modern literature. His most recent publications are Palgrave's Literature and Politics in the 1620s: 'Whisper'd Counsells,' and the essay collection Editing Early Modern Women (co-edited with Sarah C. Smith).

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ISBN 13	9780192839015
ISBN 10	0192839012
Title	An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
Author	Paul Salzman
Series	Oxford World's Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1998-11-01
Number of pages	464
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