… culture that were worthy of criticism and satire. Its real existence as an actual practice – authors meeting with the self-conception that they were doing so as part of a club – lasted only for less than a year, starting in the spring of … The book is Pope’s ultimate contribution to the club’s project, reframed by the poet as a war against dullness itself, as well as against all the ‘dunces’ that serve her. It immortalized the type of ridicule that was hatched in the … the Scriblerus Club (Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997). Hammond, Brean S, ‘Scriblerian Self-Fashioning’, The Yearbook of English Studies , Pope, Swift, and Their Circle Special Number (vol. 18, 1988), p. …