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European Literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781611490121
- Weight: 803g
- Dimensions: 163 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2011
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination and inspired his wittiest satiric voices. Swift dubbed these multifaceted traveling entertainments his Stage-itinerant or "Mountebank's Stage." In the course of arguing that the stage-itinerant formed an irresistible model for A Tale of a Tub, Ormsby-Lennon also surmises that the mountebank's stage will disclose that missing link, long sought, that connects the dual objects of Swift's ire: gross corruptions in both Religion and Learning.
Hugh Ormsby-Lennon is professor of eighteenth-century studies at Villanova University.
