The Influences of Books of Manners and Dedekind's Grobianus on John Gay's Trivia.
For decades critics have categorised John Gay's Trivia: or The Art of Walking the Streets of London as a mock Georgic deriving its main characteristics and themes from Juvenal's Third Satire and Virgil's Georgics. Many readers have been perplexed by the ambiguities and dissonance between the Walker'...
| Published in: | Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 65 - 84 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2021
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