The Learned English Dog

[Albert Rolls]

I've officially become fascinated: "'The Learned English Dog': Fielding's Mock Scholarship," by Bertrand A. Goldgar in Augustan Subjects, ed. AJ Rivero (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997).

There's actually scholarship on the 18th century Learned dog, Boswell mentions him in The Life of SJ. The dog isn't simply "another of Pynchon's antirationalist inventions" (Timothy Parrish, From Civil War to the Apocalypse (2008).


-----Original Message-----
>From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>Sent: May 27, 2011 12:37 AM
>To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Cc: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The Learned English Dog
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>That mid-18th century (from the mid-19th volume) Learned Dog doesn't seem to have been picked up in the P criticism. Am I correct about that? Very surprising.
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>Sent: May 26, 2011 11:47 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: The Learned English Dog
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>>Could use any/all "scholarly" or whatever works on/references to The
>>Learned English Dog.  Have @ hand, e.g., ...
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>>Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall. "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral:
>>   The Play of Species in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon."
>>   Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture:
>>   Representation, Hybridity, Ethics.   Ed. Frank Palmieri.
>>   Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 179-99
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>>Help!  Thanks!
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