A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (Annotated)

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones is an unruly autobiographical pamphlet in which Timothy Dexter defends his improbable rise, mocks his detractors, and turns self-advertisement into comic performance. Its torrents of misspelling, eccentric capitalization, biblical allusion, local gossip, and near-absence of punctuation place it beside early American vernacular satire, while resisting genteel literary ...