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Article: Imagining Rabelais in Renaissance England.(Review)
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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Anne Lake Prescott, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 21 illus. + xviii + 257 pp. $30. ISBN: 0-300-07122-1.
In Imagining Rabelais, Anne Lake Prescott, a scholar whose previous work includes a study of French poetic influence on Renaissance England, examines Francois Rabelais's impact on English Renaissance writers, from the very obscure to the most well-known, in the first half of the seventeenth century, up until, as she puts it, "Thomas Urquhart's obstreperous 1653 translation made him part of English literature" (vii). Her work falls into the general category of reception studies; as a consequence, and by her own admission, the book has very ...