Reading the Surfaces of Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband.(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

I do here think fit to inform the Reader, that in such Conclusions as these, Reason is certainly in the Right; and that in most Corporeal Beings, which have fallen under my Cognizance, the Outside hath been infinitely preferable to the In: Whereof I have been farther convinced from some late Experiments. Last Week I saw a Woman flay'd, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse.

Jonathan Swift's satiric masterpiece A Tale of a Tub (1704) takes as its subject the relative value of what we might call an "aesthetics of surface," as opposed to an ...

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