Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Author: Alexander Pope

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781721918362

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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot by Alexander Pope Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.


This Long Disease, My Life

This Long Disease, My Life

Author: Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 140087596X

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When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to “this long disease, my life,” his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present the first medical case history of the poet. Drawing heavily upon the Correspondence for information about Pope's symptoms, they discuss the effect ill health had on his writings and the prevalence of medical themes in his works. The authors also explore Pope’s interests in astronomy (second only to his obsession with medicine), microscopy, geology, and physics and how they relate to his writings. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


The Correspondence of Dr. John Arbuthnot

The Correspondence of Dr. John Arbuthnot

Author: John Arbuthnot

Publisher: Brill Fink

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13:

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Dr. John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735, Leibarzt von Königin Anne, Mitglied des berühmten Scriblerus Club und Freund so bedeutender Autoren wie John Gay, Alexander Pope und Jonathan Swift, ist eine herausragende Gestalt der englischen Literatur-, Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Als Verfasser von The History of John Bull von 1712 sowie der Kunst des politischen Lügens (Art of Political Lying), ist er auch dem gebildeten deutschen Publikum bekannt. Die biographisch eingeleitete und kommentierte historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe seiner Korrespondenz mit Freunden aus dem Scriblerus Club sowie feministischen Autorinnen wirft neue erhellende Schlaglichter auf zahlreiche Facetten der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des englischen Augustan Age.


The History of John Bull

The History of John Bull

Author: John Arbuthnot

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781475216288

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John Bull originated in the creation of Dr John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was popularised first by British print makers. Arbuthnot created Bull in his pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit (1712)." Originally derided, William Hogarth and other British writers made Bull "a heroic archetype of the freeborn Englishman." Later, the figure of Bull was disseminated overseas by illustrators and writers such as American cartoonist Thomas Nast and Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, author of John Bull's Other Island.


Flesh in the Age of Reason

Flesh in the Age of Reason

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780393050752

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"Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self. He shows how the Enlightenment (with its explosion or rational thinking and scientific invention of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) provided a lens through which we can best see the profound shift from the theocentric, otherwordly, Dark Ages to the modern, earthly, body-centered world we live in today. As man made in God's image gave way to the Enlightenment's notion of the Self-made man, the body moved center stage. Porter writes brilliantly on the ways in which men and women flaunted, decorated, tanned, and dieted themselves: activities that we find familiar but that a Puritan divine would have considered satanic. And he explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blake, and Byron."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


The Dunciad

The Dunciad

Author: Alexander Pope

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 177667183X

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Fans of literary lampoonery will delight in the no-holds-barred, scorched-earth satire that British poet Alexander Pope unleashes in his witty masterpiece, The Dunciad. Disgusted by the teeming waves of self-proclaimed "writers" who emerged in search of a quick buck when the growing availability of cheaply printed books made sentimental stories popular with the public, Pope took it upon himself to put these hacks in their place in an epic poem lambasting their dullness and lack of refinement.