Jo Poppleton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jo Poppleton plays a role.
Article
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