Hey presto! [electronic resource] : Swift and the quacks / Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
2011
PR3727 .O76 2010eb
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Hey presto! [electronic resource] : Swift and the quacks / Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
Author
Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh.
ISBN
9781611490138 (electronic bk.)
9780874130874
9781611490121
9780874130874
9781611490121
Publication Details
Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (412 p.) : ill.
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PR3727 .O76 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
828/.509
Note
"We order that the clergy must not be jesters, goliards, or buffoons; if they pursue such disgraceful accomplishments for a whole year, they are to be stripped of all ecclesiastical privileges. Pope Boniface VIII (ca. 1298 CE)".
"[Dr. Swift] can Preach and read Prayers in the Morning, write Baudy in the Afternoon, banter Heaven and Religion and write prophanely at Night, and then read Prayers and Preach again the next Morning, and so on in a due Rotation of Extremes; [he] is much fitter than I am for turning the Tears of the Unhappy into a Ballad, and making a Mock of human Misery. Daniel Defoe (1726)".
"[Dr. Swift] can Preach and read Prayers in the Morning, write Baudy in the Afternoon, banter Heaven and Religion and write prophanely at Night, and then read Prayers and Preach again the next Morning, and so on in a due Rotation of Extremes; [he] is much fitter than I am for turning the Tears of the Unhappy into a Ballad, and making a Mock of human Misery. Daniel Defoe (1726)".
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Table of 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.
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.