ISBN: 9780191507021

Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.Published in London in 1… Mehr…

Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour inits densely-printed pages.Literary historians have long been fascinated by the influence of Florio's translation, analysing its contributions to the development of the English essay and tracing its appropriation in the work of Webster, Dryden, and other major writers.William M. Hamlin, by contrast, undertakes an exploration ofFlorio's Montaigne within the overlapping realms of print and manuscript culture, assessing its importance from the varied perspectives of its earliest English readers.Drawing on letters, diaries, commonplace books, and thousands of marginal annotations inscribed in surviving copies of Florio's volume, Hamlin offers a comprehensive account of the transmission and reception of Montaigne in seventeenth-century England.In particular he focuses on topics that consistently intrigued Montaigne'sEnglish readers: sexuality, marriage, conscience, theatricality, scepticism, self-presentation, the nature of wisdom, and the power of custom.All in all, Hamlin's study constitutes a major contribution to investigations of literary readership in pre-Enlightenment Europe.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

2013, ISBN: 9780191507021

Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exubera… Mehr…

Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour inits densely-printed pages. Literary historians have long been fascinated by the influence of Florio's translation, analysing its contributions to the development of the English essay and tracing its appropriation in the work of Webster, Dryden, and other major writers. William M. Hamlin, by contrast, undertakes an exploration ofFlorio's Montaigne within the overlapping realms of print and manuscript culture, assessing its importance from the varied perspectives of its earliest English readers. Drawing on letters, diaries, commonplace books, and thousands of marginal annotations inscribed in surviving copies of Florio's volume, Hamlin offers a comprehensive account of the transmission and reception of Montaigne in seventeenth-century England. In particular he focuses on topics that consistently intrigued Montaigne'sEnglish readers: sexuality, marriage, conscience, theatricality, scepticism, self-presentation, the nature of wisdom, and the power of custom. All in all, Hamlin's study constitutes a major contribution to investigations of literary readership in pre-Enlightenment Europe. [PU: OUP Oxford], Seiten: 352, OUP Oxford, 2013<

ISBN: 9780191507021

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*Montaigne's English Journey* - Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day / pdf eBook für 135.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein eBook als pdf eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780191507021

Montaigne's English Journey - Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day: ab 135.99 € eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen Oxford University Press eBook als pdf, Oxford University Press

2013, ISBN: 9780191507021

Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2013