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Dr. John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735, Leibarzt von Königin Anne, Mitglied des berühmten Scriblerus Club und Freund so bedeutender Autoren wie John Gay, Alexander Pope und Jonathan Swift, ist eine herausragende Gestalt der englischen Literatur-, Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Als Verfasser von The History of John Bull von 1712 sowie der Kunst des politischen Lügens (Art of Political Lying), ist er auch dem gebildeten deutschen Publikum bekannt. Die biographisch eingeleitete und kommentierte historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe seiner Korrespondenz mit Freunden aus dem Scriblerus Club sowie feministischen Autorinnen wirft neue erhellende Schlaglichter auf zahlreiche Facetten der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte des englischen Augustan Age.
John Bull originated in the creation of Dr John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was popularised first by British print makers. Arbuthnot created Bull in his pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit (1712)." Originally derided, William Hogarth and other British writers made Bull "a heroic archetype of the freeborn Englishman." Later, the figure of Bull was disseminated overseas by illustrators and writers such as American cartoonist Thomas Nast and Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, author of John Bull's Other Island.
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