Title: The nut-cracker : containing an agreeable variety of well-season'd jests, epigrams, epitaphs, &c. collected from the most sprightly wits of the present age : together with such instructions as will enable any man to tell a story with a good grace and crack a nut without losing the kernel : with other particulars equally useful and entertaining, and for which the gentle, kind, and courteous reader, will be pleased to look over the following pages ... /
Authors: Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771
Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's Church Yard, B. Collins in Salisbury : and sold by the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland,
Year: 1751
Subjects: Wit and humor; Epigrams, English.
Contents: The immigration problem -- Technologies of self: nativism, cultural pluralism, and "America" -- The migrant remitted -- Imagination -- Short stories of migration and the literary process in diaspora -- The exhibition of subjectivity: migrant performances and parody acts -- Bios and subjectivity: life stories in migration -- The history of migration: autobiographical writing and historiography -- Afterword: history in future anterior.