A manner of correspondence : a study of the Scriblerus Club /

A manner of correspondence : a study of the Scriblerus Club /

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Author / Creator:Brückmann, Patricia Carr, 1932-
Imprint:Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subject:
Scriblerus Club.
Scriblerus Club.
Satire, English -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Satire, English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152857
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ISBN:9780773566477
0773566473
1282854380
9781282854383
9786612854385
6612854383
0773515461
9780773515468
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-178) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"A Manner of Correspondence examines one of the most interesting of literary clubs - the Scriblerus Club - whose members were Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Patricia Bruckmann shows that the Scriblerians were bound by correspondent values, complementary talents, and a united satiric program." "Tracing their shared vision in such works as Memoirs of Scriblerus, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, The Beggar's Opera, and The Dunciad, Bruckmann identifies the pastoral as their common ideal and analyses their shared hostilities and anxieties regarding the erosion of that ideal in an age they saw as grotesquely degenerate. She points out that in many ways the group was out of step with its own time and much more attuned to ancient and traditional images of felicity and to ancient authors who subscribed to these values. The influence of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, who both figure as icons in the Scriblerians' work, as well as such authors as Seneca, Lucian, Lucius Apuleius, and Francois Rabelais is explored in detail." "Bruckmann highlights the Scriblerian influence on writers such as Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Robert Coover, and James Joyce, offering a place for dialogue between modern humanists and their eighteenth-century forebears."--Jacket
Other form:Print version: Brückmann, Patricia Carr, 1932- Manner of correspondence. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997

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