Hugh Ormsby-Lennon
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Hugh Ormsby-Lennon · 2010
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Traveling "medicine shows," both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination. Dubbing such multifaceted vagabond entertainments his "Stage-Itinerant" or "Mountebank's Stage," Swift mimicked their argot, puffery, and slapstick in A Tale of a Tub (1704). The author reveals how the stage-itinerant not only furnished the Tale with its irresistible model but still parades that missing link, long sought, which conjoins the dual objects of Swift's ire: "gross Corruptions in [both] Religion and Learning."
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 412
- ISBN
- 9780874130874
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