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John Gay. Social Critic / Sven M. Armens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1954]Copyright date: ©1954Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231916943
  • 9780231885003
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Implications of an Age of Innocence -- Chapter II. The Beggar's Milieu: The Beggar's Opera -- Chapter III. The Beggar's Milieu: Trivia -- Chapter IV. Wealth and Universal Darkness -- Chapter V. The Beggar's View of Augustan Courtly Love -- Chapter VI. Lobbin Rapin -- Chapter VII. Bob Booty and the Beast -- Chapter VIII. The Double View -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Examines the poetry of John Gay to get a more complete picture of his work and to analyze the validity of two common attitudes to the author: that he is the author of one successful-but-trivial play, the Beggar's Opera, or that he is a minor member of the Scriblerus Club notable for being a friend of Swift and Pope.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231885003

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Implications of an Age of Innocence -- Chapter II. The Beggar's Milieu: The Beggar's Opera -- Chapter III. The Beggar's Milieu: Trivia -- Chapter IV. Wealth and Universal Darkness -- Chapter V. The Beggar's View of Augustan Courtly Love -- Chapter VI. Lobbin Rapin -- Chapter VII. Bob Booty and the Beast -- Chapter VIII. The Double View -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Examines the poetry of John Gay to get a more complete picture of his work and to analyze the validity of two common attitudes to the author: that he is the author of one successful-but-trivial play, the Beggar's Opera, or that he is a minor member of the Scriblerus Club notable for being a friend of Swift and Pope.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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