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Title: FRANCIS BACON AND RENAISSANCE PROSE
By: Brian Vickers
Format: Paperback

List price: £40.00


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ISBN 10: 0521114969
ISBN 13: 9780521114967
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 27 February, 2009
Pages: 332
Description: The study is both analytical and historical: it isolates the major features of Bacon's style, and sets them in the context of Renaissance theory and practice.
Synopsis: The full study of Bacon as a writer, Dr Vickers takes into account the whole corpus of Bacon's work, in Latin as well as in English. His chief sources are the The Advancement of Learning and the Essays. His purpose is to reinstate Bacon as one of the supreme masters of English prose in a period which made rich use of all the expressive resources of the medium. The study is both analytical and historical: it isolates the major features of Bacon's style, and sets them in the context of Renaissance theory and practice. The features include the overall structure of Bacon's works, his important concept of the aphorism, and his use of the traditional patterns of syntax. Dr Vickers makes a challenging reassessment of the accepted view of Bacon as a 'Senecan' or 'anti-Ciceronian' prose writer. Particular attention is paid to imagery, in which Bacon's powers as an imaginative writer are greatest. There are two general chapters, the first being the problem of analysing style, the last on reactions to Bacon's style since the seventeenth century. This book also provides the basis for a fresh assessment of Renaissance prose.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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