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Subtitle:
Swift and the Quacks
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Book Category:
Literary Criticism > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Author:
Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9781611490121
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Price:
USD 85.00
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Publication Year:
2011
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Alternative Binding:
Ebook
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Alternative ISBN 13:
9781611490138
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Alternative Price:
USD 84.99
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Alternative Publication Year:
2011 |
Publisher Info
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.. InquiryBook Description
Traveling "medicine shows," both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination. Dubbing such multifaceted vagabond entertainments his "Stage-Itinerant" or "Mountebank's Stage," Swift mimicked their argot, puffery, and slapstick in A Tale of a Tub (1704).
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