An Anthology of Seventeenth-century Fiction (World's Classics S.)

by Dr Paul Salzman (Editor)

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  1991

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  The 17th century was an era of vigorous experimentation in prose fiction. It also saw the appearance of the first prose fiction published by women in English, and the writings of Mary Cavendish and Mary Wroth are published here for the first time in 300 years. The works and extracts collected here offer a sample of all the major forms of fiction - Book One of Wroth's feminist romance Urania , Herbert's political romance The Princess Cloria , Cavendish's female Utopia The Blazing World , Dangerfield's picaresque criminal autobiography Don Tomazo , Bunyan's exemplary cautionary tale Mr Badman , Congreve's witty novella Incognita , and Behn's comic Restoration tale The Unfortunate Happy Lady . The texts are newly edited and modernized, and should appeal to students of 17th-century literature and women's studies courses, as well as to the interested general reader.

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  2001

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  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.