Przemyslaw Uscinski: 1 book
Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel
Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and...
