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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 David Nokes's detailed and extensive research has unearthed several new discoveries, including hitherto unpublished letters, and possible attributions.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 healthy estate after his death. Depicted both as childlike innocent and rakish ladies' man by his friends, the same writer produced Polly , the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, which was banned from the stage. 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 This book is intended for anyone interested in 18th-century Eng
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David Nokes is Reader in English at King's College, London. He co-wrote the BBC TV adaptation of Clarissa in 1992, and his book Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (OUP, 1985) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Best Biography. He is also author of No Country for Old Men (1981); and the The Long Exile of Jonathan Swift, (1981).
David Nokes is a Reader in English Literature at King's College, London.
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1st edition. 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 ; Biography. Authors, English. Authors, English 18th century Biography. Dramatists, English 18th century ; Biography. English drama 18th century History and criticism. English drama 18th century Critical studies. English literature 1700-1750 Biography. English drama. Biographies. Play scripts. Plays. Playwrights. Theatre 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 405646
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