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...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 611 - 637 |
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