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William Warner's Syrinx
William Warner
Wallace A. Bacon
其他書名
Or, a Sevenfold History
出版
Northwestern University Press
, 2018-10-15
主題
Fiction / Classics
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Criticism / Modern / 16th Century
ISBN
0810138220
9780810138223
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=73JhHAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
William Warner's Syrinx, or a Sevenfold History
, may be the first English novel. Unlike others of the time, though, Warner wrote a realistic novel whose ancestors include the adventure stories of Alexandrine romance, and focus not on the tales of an aristocratic class but on the lives of middle-class individuals. Wallace A. Bacon's critical edition brings Warner's important novel--with its young protagonists being dragged through many adventures, tried and tested by Fortune, with their tales being brought to a close by auspicious gods--to life, preserving it and introducing it to new generations of readers. Bacon's critical apparatus, including an extensive introduction, provides significant context for Warner's work, assessing its key role in the history of the novel and in the history of early modern literature.