John Gay. Social Critic / / Sven M. Armens.
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 fri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1954] ©1954 |
| Year of Publication: | 1954 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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