A01=Francis Coventry
Author_Francis Coventry
Ball Room
Bologna lapdog
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classical allusions study
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Coventry's works
eighteenth century English fiction analysis
eighteenth century satire
English fiction
English social commentary
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Fine Day
Great Diversion
Hay Market
historical novel criticism
Honey Moon
Hum Drum
literary parody analysis
non-human narrator
non-human observer
Play Things
Pompey's history
Tea Pot
Waiting Gentlewoman
Product details
- ISBN 9780367111199
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 127 x 205mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1974, this volume of The History of Pompey the Little includes a critical introduction and a biographical sketch of the author based on new material from unpublished documents, together with explanatory notes for the novel's many classical and contemporary allusions.
Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little was the talk of London in 1751; it continued to captivate readers throughout the century. Satirizing notable persons and events of its day, it startled the public by having as its 'hero' a Bologna lapdog, and created a new and popular form in English fiction - the 'spy'-novel with a non-human observer.
Francis Coventry, Robert Adams Day
