The Scriblerian Mock-Arts: Pseudo-Technical Satire in Swift and His Contemporaries.

During the first three decades of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Swift and members of his circle--which included Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot and Thomas Sheridan--wrote a series of satires on the technical prose of the day, referred to in this article as the "Scriblerian mock-arts." Th...

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Published in:	Studies in Philology Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 611 - 637
Main Author:	Bullard, Paddy
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of North Carolina Press Summer2013
Subjects:	English poetry English satire Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 Gay, John, 1685-1732 Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735 Sheridan, Thomas Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 British literature
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