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PublisherPixelia Publishing
ISBN-101737033054
ISBN-139781737033059
eBay Product ID (ePID)25070920400
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Publication Year2024
Book TitleTour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque : a Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen
TopicGeneral
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorRowlandson, Thomas
GenrePoetry, Fiction
AuthorWilliam Combe
FormatTrade Paperback
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
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SynopsisToday, Jane Austen's characters are household names: Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. During the 1810s, however, the decade during which Austen published her novels, they were all eclipsed by Doctor Syntax. The scrawny clergyman astride his rawboned nag, traipsing about the country in search of picturesque sights, was as ubiquitous in his day as Bugs Bunny is in ours, and just as beloved. Austen herself took part in the fun, marveling at the Doctor's outrageously long chin in an 1814 letter. We can learn a great deal about Regency readers--the readers for whom Austen wrote--by attending to the most popular comic poem of the decade, and we can learn even more about Austen herself. Many of the central themes of this forgotten bestseller--from the plight of poor clergy to the aesthetic theory knows as "the picturesque"--are major concerns of her novels as well.This edition offers an array of critical resources that put The Tour of Doctor Syntax and its most famous reader in conversation--including a Biographical Essay on William Combe (the most up-to-date treatment of the author's life), a Contextual Essay on the picturesque, and abundant notes on the text, many of which draw direct connections between the poem and Austen's life and work.
