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This major biography is the first full-length life of John Gay (1685-1732) for over fifty years. David Nokes's detailed and extensive research has unearthed several new discoveries, including hitherto unpublished letters, and possible attributions. Presenting Gay as a complex character, torn between the hopes of court preferment and the assertion of literary independence, this book is at once a lively and readable biography for the non-specialist, as well as a comprehensive and scholarly study. Perhaps best-known for The Beggar's Opera, John Gay is here revealed to be a contradictory figure whose life defies strict generic categories. Often cast as a neglected genius, dependent upon others, Gay in fact left a considerable fortune after his death. Depicted both as childlike innocent and rakish ladies' man by his friends, he produced the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, and volumes of Fables which remained best-sellers for over a century. David Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary persona was largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genial literary non-entity. Hence Gay's authorship has been frequently questioned and often attributed, at least in part, to his friends in the Scriblerus Club - Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot. John Gay, A Profession of Friendship finally views Gay as a man whose struggles for literary and social recognition led him, paradoxically, to project a deliberately enigmatic personality.
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- Title John Gay: A Profession of Friendship
- Author Nokes, David
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- Pages 578
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Date 1995
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xv, 563 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; With a commentary by the author printed in the Times Literary Supplement (20 January, 1995) loosely inserted. Includes bibliographical references (pages 548-551) and index. Contents; In paternal land -- The london apprentice -- Grub Street Apollo -- In attendance -- Taking sides -- Envoy -- Extraordinary -- Trivial pursuits -- The confederates -- The beast of blois -- Bubbled -- A will of my own -- The hare and many friends -- Company of beggars -- The terror of ministers -- Industry and idleness. Subjects; Gay, John 1685-1732. Gay, John (1685-1732) Biographies. Gay, John 1685-1732 poet and playwright. Authors, English 18th century ;…
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