The Learned English Dog

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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).

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