The Adventures Of A Bank-Note - Softcover

Thomas Bridges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371427029 ISBN 13: 9780371427026

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

The Adventures Of A Bank-Note by Thomas Bridges is a sprawling eighteenth?century satire told from the perspective of a single bank-note as it passes through many hands. Originally published in 1771, the work is structured in chapters and volumes and offers a mosaic of social caricatures and comic episodes. The narrative follows the note as it experiences life in the wallets and pockets of a ships captain, a fashionable gentleman, a dutiful country squire, and a range of townsfolk, clerics, apprentices, and tradesmen. Through its episodic scenes—ranging from naval adventures and courtship misadventures, to the antics of a rat-catcher and a parson’s reforms—the book lampoons pretensions of wealth, fashion, and refinement while exposing human folly. The author uses mock-epic comparisons, digressive asides, and direct address to readers to critique social mores, consumer culture, and the precariousness of money. Although framed as a humorous travelogue, the text offers pointed observations about class, virtue, vice, and the economic foibles that govern everyday life in Georgian England.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371427029
• ISBN 13: 9780371427026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224