Poetics of the Pillory. English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820. Thomas Keymer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 323 p.
The fictional publisher of Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker (1771) assures its fictional author that “if you should be sentenced to the pillory, your fortune is made.” The pillory was used to punish minor offenders including cheats, liars, rioters and homosexuals, by shaming them in public, but, as...
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2020
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.9714 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/dgnt https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/9714 |
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