English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700

by Roger Pooley

Book Overview

This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582016592
• ISBN13: 9780582016590
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"