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OverviewWhen 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: DM BryanPublisher: University of Calgary Press Imprint: University of Calgary Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.610kg ISBN: 9781773850504ISBN 10: 1773850504 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 28 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsWorthwhile and intriguing! - Ted Bishop, professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta Author InformationDM Bryan teaches writing and English at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. She is the author of Gerbil Mother. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |