Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

Richard Sir Steele's 'Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer' is a delightful foray into the realms of satire and social commentary, cleverly presented through an eponymous, pseudo-autobiographical character. In this episodic work, Steele crafts a fabric of narratives that echoes the wit and intellectual currents of early 18th-century Britain, placing his brainchild amid contemporaneous liter...