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Title: HEY PRESTO!
SWIFT AND THE QUACKS
By: Hugh Ormsby-Lennon
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 161149012X
ISBN 13: 9781611490121
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
Pub. date: 24 June, 2011
Pages: 412
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Prizes: Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2012
Returns: Returnable
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