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304 p. Paperback

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In very good condition. - Contents -- Introduction -- The Augustan Age of English Literature -- Ovidianism in Eighteenth-Century England -- Ovid's Metamorphoses in Renaissance England Translating Ovid in the Augustan Age -- Joseph Addison and Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The 'Notes on Some of the Foregoing Stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses' and Addison's Literary Criticism The Reading Audience -- Addison's Reading of Genre: Epic or 'Fables' Addison's Classical Scholarship: -- The Texts behind his Version of the Metamorphoses Phaethon, Europa, Echo and Narcissus: -- A Commentary on selected Ovidian Episodes -- Commentary -- 'The Story of Phaeton' -- 'Europa's Rape' -- 'The Transformation viEcho' -- 'The Story of Narcissus' -- Conclusion - Bibliography. ISBN 9783897961203