Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1975 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. xxiii, 304 pp, acknowledgments, introduction, references cited by short titles, Court Satires; selected brief biographies, index. First Edition, 1975. "Lampoons of the kind collected in this volume represented a relatively novel literary form in Restoration England, but they were to prove enormously popular among the coterie of fashionable folk who frequented the Court, strolled in the galleries of Whitehall and St. James, drove in Hyde Park, gambled in the Groom Porter's lodgings, and thronged the playhouses of London. From their scurrilous exercises in libelous bawdry was to emerge a kind of subliterature, which is interesting in itself, vastly entertaining, and often useful to the biographer and social historian, but which more importantly, was to provide the rich soil of a tradition that was to nourish the later masterpieces of personal satire by such writers as Dryden, Swift, and Pope." from the jacket flap. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black and blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001237
Title: Court Satires of the Restoration
Author: Wilson, John Harold
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0814202497
ISBN 13: 9780814202494
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Place of Publication: Columbus, OH
Date Published: 1975
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM DRAMA ENGLISH RESTORATION COURT SATIRE CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION HISTORY SUBLITERATURE 1500-1700
Bookseller catalogs: LITERARY CRITICISM;
Size: Large 8vo

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