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1 online resource (373 unnumbered pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Jane Collier; AN ESSAY ON THE ART OF INGENIOUSLY TORMENTING; Advertisement to the Reader; AN ESSAY ON THE ART OF TORMENTING; Part the First; I. Instructions to Masters and Mistresses, concerning their Servants; II. To the Patronesses of an Humble Companion; III. To Parents; IV. To the Husband; Part the Second; I. To Lovers; II. To the Wife; III. To the Friend; IV. To your Good Sort of People; being an appendage to the foregoing chapter; General Rules for plaguing all your acquaintance |
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with the description of a party of pleasureConclusion of the Essay; A Fable; Explanatory Notes |
| Summary |
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. The Art provides a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century daily life, the treatment of servants and dependants and the bringing up of children, and is a thrilling precursor to the art of Jane Austen. - ;'Now the sport begins!'. An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging. A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xliii) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2018) |
| Subject |
Women -- Conduct of life -- Humor -- Early works to 1800
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Interpersonal relations -- Humor -- Early works to 1800
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Conduct of life -- Humor -- Early works to 1800
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Conduct of life
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Interpersonal relations
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Women -- Conduct of life
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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Humor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Craik, Katharine A.
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| ISBN |
9781429487177 |
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1429487178 |
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9780191517167 |
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019151716X |
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