Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? The Project of Prose in Early Modern…
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Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World brings together ten essays by leading scholars of the literatures of England, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and the colonial Americas, to answer these questions in wide-ranging ways. And how did it operate in the literary and social world?
Overall, this 1997 collection will provoke an international reconsideration of the remarkable visibility and diversity of the medium of prose in the early modern period. Several of the essays shed light on landmark prose works of the period; some discuss what lesser-known writings reveal about the medium; others move between the literary and the non-literary to reflect on the medium's intersections with history, fiction, subjectivity, the state, science and other aspects of social and cultural life.