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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345981803321

Autore

Powers Doris C.

Titolo

English formal satire : Elizabethan to Augustan / / Doris C. Powers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 1971

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]

©1971

ISBN

3-11-134249-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

De Proprietatibus Litterarum. Series Practica ; ; 19

Soggetti

Englisch

Geschichte 1590-1700

Satire

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE -- I. Introduction -- PART TWO -- II. Verisimilitude as Evidence: Elizabethan and Jacobean -- III. The Satirist as Authenticating Device: Elizabethan and Jacobean -- IV. Verisimilitude as Evidence: Caroline and Restoration -- PART THREE -- VI. Some Typical English Formal Satires -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.