Search Results for Scriblerian Satire

...Nancy A. Mace Power Henry . Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2015 ). Pp. xiv + 232 . 3 ills. $95 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...

... these writers get with the program? Besides, if there was such a thing as Scriblerian satire, why so little uniformity of tone, technique, target, and aim? Perhaps, one might respond, because plenitude and diversity were as fundamental to Menippean satura as Menippean satura was to the Scriblerian...

... that Tristram is more profitably read as Scriblerian satire than as novelistic fiction, an argument that continues to reverberate today. (In his own essay in this col- lection, New deadpans, “I have, on occasion, considered Sterne a satirist . . . ”) Not so long ago, moreover, there was widespread...

... (Pope, Swift, and others) beyond the death of Pope in 1744. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 James Robertson Scriblerian Satire Eighteenth‐Century Popular Literature Pope Swift In early 1770, James Robertson (1713‒95) published anonymously...

... Technologies of the Self: Martinus among the Postmoderns,” paper delivered at conference, “Martinus Revived: Scriblerian Satire and its Significance,” Inst. of English Studies, Univ. of London, 10 Nov. 2000. Dennis Todd has noticed Arbuthnot’s evasiveness during the Mary...

...,” a compromise that, like Fromm’s loss of self, represents “a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.”6 Although the challenge posed to the iden- tity of Gay and the other Scriblerians by power is different in some re- spects from any of these examples, it remains...

... of the annotation 10 Eighteenth-Century Life as a whole. Pope, of course, wrote many of the notes himself, but, in true Swiftian fashion, he disguises his voice and attributes them to his fictional modern dupe. Pope’s fellow Scriblerians contributed to the cacophony as well. Swift almost certainly...

... authors or subject matter were gauchely linked to commerce or the common. Williams describes the creation of a “satirical shorthand” (55) that Tories would reuse repeatedly across the period, from Dryden and Behn in the aftermath of the Civil War, to the Scriblerians after the Hanoverian accession...

... London. Swift's poetry of this period holds a creative tension between bookish allusions to his Scriblerian friends still in London (especially Pope and John Gay), alongside other leading English poets, and local references to the obscure people of Market Hill who now surround him (210–11). Cook uses...

... of Henry Fielding’s Miscel- lanies by 1743, a half-dozen years before Tom Jones came out; the Scriblerian Miscellanies of Swift, Pope, the two Johns—Arbuthnot and Gay—initially 118   Eighteenth-Century Life published by Benjamin Motte in 1726/27, swelled to a dozen volumes by the fourth edition...

.... Indirectly, Anne became, through her minister Robert Harley, the muse of writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, John Dennis, Ambrose Philips, the Scriblerians, Nicholas Rowe, and many others.8 The literary history of the last century typically separated the so-called ages of Dryden and Johnson...

... hand, readers who go back to the source texts to look up these passages can join in the fun at Boswell and Piozzi’s expense, rereading the passage in the light of what they know Peter has made of it, reading through Peter’s eyes, as it were. On the other, one suspects a further neo-Scriblerian...

.... As their modern editor observes, Pope was using “the codifying power of print . . . to project an appearance of common cause drawn from an older Scriblerian model of collectivism but now focussed on himself and Swift.” 40 But by far the most elaborate and self-­conscious example of pretended mul...

..., Dunton’s autobiography, The Life and Errors of  John Dunton . . . written by himself  (1705), may have had more influence on Sterne. As with Colley Cibber’s Apology (1740), the unreliable narrator of Dunton’s Life may have served as a model for Tristram; in both instances, the Scriblerians found...

... the Scriblerians, King targets the cataloging, chronicling, documenting, and collecting temper of the new science while also implying that Sloane col- lects others’ knowledge by cherry-­picking information to make a jumble analogous to Sloane’s curiosity cabinet with its confused assemblage of art- ful...

...: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2003). Pp. 258. 6 ills. $45. ISBN 0-674-01166-x Haslett, Moyra. Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings.Transitions, ed. Julian Wolfreys (New York: Palgrave, 2003). Pp. 320. $75...

...: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2003). Pp. 258. 6 ills. $45. ISBN 0-674-01166-x Haslett, Moyra. Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings.Transitions, ed. Julian Wolfreys (New York: Palgrave, 2003). Pp. 320. $75...

..., 1714–1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 9; and Sylvia Harcstark Myers, The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), 11. 9. See Hilary Havens, “Memorializing Sorrow...

... upon the immorality of contemporary writing for the stage in the “Preface” to King Arthur; a generation later, he became a target of Tory and Scriblerian mockery, directed by Pope in par- ticular (Blackmore had criticized him in his Essays upon Several Subjects of 1716). The most infamous...

..., Christopher Fox, in his “Introduction” to Inventing Human Science, observes Gulliver as a “little speaking animal” (6, 23 – 24n38). See also Fox’s analysis of Augustan concepts of identity in his Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain (Berkeley: Univ...