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* First full-length biography of John Gay for over 50 years This major biography is the first full-length life of John Gay (1685-1732) for over fifty years. David Nokes's detailed and extensive research has unearthed several new discoveries, including hitherto unpublished letters, and possible attributions. Presenting Gay as a complex character, tornbetween the hopes of court preferment and the assertion of literary independence, this book is at once a lively and readable biography for the non-specialist, as well as a comprehensive and scholarly study. Perhaps best known for The Beggar's Opera, John Gay is here revealed to be a contradictory figure whose life defies strict generic categories. Often cast as a neglected genius, dependent upon others, Gay in fact left a healthy estate after his death. Depicted both as childlike innocent and rakishladies' man by his friends, the same writer produced Polly, the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, which was banned from the stage. David Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary persona was largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genial literary non-entity. Hence Gay's authorship has been frequently questioned and often attributed, at least in part, to his friends in the ScriblerusClub - Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Parnell. John Gay, A Profession of Friendship finally views Gay as a man whose struggles for literary and social recognition led him, paradoxically, to project a seemingly nebulous personality., BL First full-length biography of John Gay for over 50 yearsThis major biography is the first full-length life of John Gay (1685-1732) forover fifty years. David Nokes's detailed and extensive research has unearthedseveral new discoveries, including hitherto unpublished letters, and possibleattributions. Presenting Gay as a complex character, torn between the hopes ofcourt preferment and the assertion of literary independence, this book is atonce a lively and readable biography for the non-specialist, as well as acomprehensive and scholarly study.Perhaps best known for The Beggar's Opera, John Gay is here revealed to be acontradictory figure whose life defies strict generic categories. Often cast asa neglected genius, dependent upon others, Gay in fact left a healthy estateafter his death. Depicted both as childlike innocent and rakish ladies' man byhis friends, the same writer produced Polly, the most successful and subversivetheatrical satire of his generation, which was banned from the stage.David Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary personawas largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genialliterary non-entity. Hence Gay's authorship has been frequently questioned andoften attributed, at least in part, to his friends in the Scriblerus Club -Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Parnell. John Gay, A Profession of Friendshipfinally views Gay as a man whose struggles for literary and social recognitionled him, paradoxically, to project a seemingly nebulous personality., This major biography is the first full-length life of John Gay (1685-1732) for over fifty years. David Nokes's detailed and extensive research has unearthed several new discoveries, including hitherto unpublished letters, and possible attributions. Presenting Gay as a complex character, torn between the hopes of court preferment and the assertion of literary independence, this book is at once a lively and readable biography for the non-specialist, as well as a comprehensive and scholarly study. Perhaps best known for The Beggar's Opera, John Gay is here revealed to be a contradictory figure whose life defies strict generic categories. Often cast as a neglected genius, dependent upon others, Gay in fact left a healthy estate after his death. Depicted both as childlike innocent and rakish ladies' man by his friends, the same writer produced Polly, the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, which was banned from the stage. David Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary persona was largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genial literary non-entity.

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