Author: Thomas BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical, in prose and verse ... With the life and character of Mr. Brown, and his writings, by James Drake
Author: Thomas BrownThe Works ... Serious and Comical, in Prose and Verse: with His Remains, with the Life and Character ... by James Drake
Author: Tom BrownThe Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, Serious and Comical, in Prose and Verse
Author: Thomas BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse
Author: Thomas BrownCaxton Head Catalogue[s]
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Author: The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis & Son (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Works
Author: Thomas BrownA Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Hey Presto!
Author: Hugh Ormsby-LennonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 164453116X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
In this book the author reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift’s imagination and inspired his wittiest satiric voices. Swift dubbed these multifaceted traveling entertainments his Stage-itinerant or “Mountebank’s Stage.” In the course of arguing that the stage-itinerant formed an irresistible model for A Tale of a Tub, Ormsby-Lennon also surmises that the mountebank’s stage will disclose that missing link, long sought, which connects the twin objects of Swift’s ire: gross corruptions in both religion and learning. In the early modern medicine show, the quack doctor delivered a loquacious harangue, infused with magico-mysticism and pseudoscience, high-astounding promises, and boastful narcissism. To help him sell his panaceas and snake-oil, he employed a Merry Andrew and a motley troupe of performers. From their stages, many quacks also peddled their own books, almanacs, and other ephemera, providing Grub Street with many of its best-sellers. Hacks practiced, quite literally, as quacks. Merry Andrew and mountebank traded costumes, whiskers, and voices. Swift apes them all in the Tale. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.