Keener, Frederick M.

English Dialogues of the Dead – A Critical History, An Anthology, and A Check List.

New York / London, Columbia University Press, 1973. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 302 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly.

Includes for example the following essays: Books Neither Lost nor Found: Matthew Prior’s Dialogues and Others, 1700-1759 / A Dialogue Between Alexander, Hannibal, Minos, Scipio / Hell Broke Loose / A Dialogue Between the Vicar of Bray, and Sir Thomas More etc.

Imagined conversations between well known deceased philosophers, writers, artists, politicians etc from contemporaneous writers across four centuries. This genre of literature had at least two periods of popularity in that time and in this publication Keener gives a history of the genre, those that wrote it and discusses its possible revival in the modern age.

• Keywords: 17th Century · 17th Century Literature · 18th Century · 18th Century Literature · 19th Century · 19th Century Literature · 20th Century · 20th Century Literature · British Author · British Writers · English Literature · Humour · Literary Criticism – Rare
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231036957
• Inventory Number: 60380AB

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