The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus

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English literature literary work satirical prose work

The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is a satirical prose work collaboratively written by members of the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, parodying pedantry and false learning through the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.

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The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus canonical 2
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Predicate Object
instanceOf English literature ⓘ
literary work ⓘ
satirical prose work ⓘ
associatedWith Alexander Pope ⓘ
John Arbuthnot ⓘ
Jonathan Swift ⓘ
The Scriblerus Club ⓘ
surface form: Scriblerus Club
author Alexander Pope ⓘ
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ⓘ
John Arbuthnot ⓘ
John Gay ⓘ
Jonathan Swift ⓘ
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer ⓘ
surface form: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford

Thomas Parnell ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
createdByGroup The Scriblerus Club ⓘ
surface form: Scriblerus Club
featuresCharacterType pedant ⓘ
scholar ⓘ
fictionalScholar Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ
genre prose fiction ⓘ
satire ⓘ
hasTheme critique of academic pretension ⓘ
mock scholarship ⓘ
satire of learned societies ⓘ
historicalContext early 18th-century British intellectual culture ⓘ
influencedBy classical satire ⓘ
scholarly treatises of the period ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryForm prose ⓘ
literaryMovement Augustan literature ⓘ
literaryTechnique burlesque ⓘ
irony ⓘ
parody ⓘ
mainCharacter Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
parodies false learning ⓘ
pedantry ⓘ
scholarly affectation ⓘ
partOf Scriblerian satire tradition ⓘ
publicationCentury 18th century ⓘ
relatedWork Gulliver's Travels ⓘ
The Dunciad ⓘ
settingPeriod early 18th century ⓘ
subjectMatter education of Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ
erudition and folly ⓘ
misuse of learning ⓘ
targetAudience readers of Augustan satire ⓘ

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The Scriblerus Club → notableWork → The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse → hasPart → The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Martinus Scriblerus → notableWork → The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus ⓘ