The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture, 1749-1764 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198128595)

The Nonsense Club was a group of five friends and writers--Charles Churchill, Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper, and Robert Lloyd--who wrote and edited numerous periodicals, produced a distinctive and often brilliant satirical poetry, engaged in virulent theatrical and literary battles, and participated in the most important domestic political debate of their time. In this first comprehensive study of the group, Lance Bertelsen uses interdisciplinary methods to create a more complex understanding of the relationship between literature and culture in the era of Hogarth, Johnson, and Wilkes.

Author: Lance Bertelsen
ISBN-10: 0198128592
ISBN-13: 9780198128595
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 09/11/1986
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 1.01d