Pugg's portmanteau /
"When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved canine embarks on an inquiry to make sense of the disordered contents. Notes from a criminal investigation, letters between sisters, a pair of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada :
University of Calgary Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Brave & brilliant series ;
no. 9. |
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| Summary: | "When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved canine embarks on an inquiry to make sense of the disordered contents. Notes from a criminal investigation, letters between sisters, a pair of novels, and the personal reflection of one Sarah Scott lead Pugg on a journey through London's streets, high and low. In fashionable bookstores and printmakers workshops he uncovers an inky world ruled by paper and on the way he meets a cast of printer's devils, pirates, hacks, bluestockings, and intrepid laundresses. Re-telling tales pulled from Hogarth's own prints, "Pugg's Portmanteau" ransacks eighteenth-century literary culture for its rumbustious pleasures, baroque complications, gothic horrors, and even the odd quiet contentment. Inspired by Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Sterne, and Scott--authors who pioneered the English novel--the book explores the relationship between genre and gender, asking what the Enlightenment might have looked like if it had been just a little more enlightened."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 385 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1773850504 9781773850504 |
| ISSN: | 2371-7238 ; |