Menippean satire and the poetics of wit: Conventions of self-consciousness in Dunton and Sterne

The prose genre of Menippean satire attacks prevailing philosophical and literary decorum primarily through the ridicule of the philosophus gloriosus, or glorious philosopher. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, wit's prominence in learned circles transforms the gloriosus into the&...

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Main Author:	Sherbert, Garry H
Format:	Dissertation
Language:	English
Published:	ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01-01-1992
Subjects:	Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Blake, William (1757-1827) British & Irish literature British and Irish literature Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) Dunton, John (1659-1733) Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965) Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) Lyly, John (1554?-1606) Orwell, George (Eric Blair) (1903-1950) Rabelais, Francois (ca 1490-1553?) Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
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