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Hey presto! : Swift and the quacks / Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
- Title
- Hey presto! : Swift and the quacks / Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
- Author
- Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR3727 .O76 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 412 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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."
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Si vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur -- Classis stage-itinerant -- From gabble and harangue to quack's bill -- Universal improvement of mankind -- Ejaculating the soul -- Aping the medicine show: Mencken, Salmon, Yworth -- Doctor and presto -- Dumfounding -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Beginnings and endings, terrae filius on Grub Street.
- ISBN
- 9781611490121 (alk. paper)
- 161149012X (alk. paper)
- 9780874130874 (alk. paper)
- 0874130875 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010014702
- OCLC
- 607656271
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library