Jo Poppleton

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jo Poppleton is involved.

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Poppleton, Jo 2015 "A bull is a ludicrous jest": fable and the satiric bite in Arbuthnot's John Bull pamphlets The Power of Satire, Meijer Drees, Marijke and Sonja de Leeuw (eds.), pp. 175–184 | Article

Historians interpret Arbuthnot’s John Bull pamphlets as a satire on the 1712 crisis of the Spanish Succession, and contend that the pamphlets function as satire because they borrow from the genre of fable. This generic borrowing, historians argue, works to attack specific targets – here, the Dutch… read more