Question
Charles Gildon was a rakish writer of often wholly invented biographies and, as such, lived a varied literary life. For 10 points each:
[10e] Gildon began his career with a pseudo-history of John Dunton’s Athenian Society, which invented this type of work. Pauline Phillips wrote the far more modern Dear Abby work of this type.
ANSWER: advice columns [prompt on columns]
[10h] To criticize plot holes, Gildon wrote a pamphlet which ends with this character’s creator eating his own big books. A series of non-fiction essays in the voice of this character comprises the book Serious Reflections.
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe
[10m] Gildon invented his biography of this author, arguing that her stories were just recollections of her life. He suggested that this author had an affair with her most famous novel’s protagonist, a prince kidnapped from Coramantien.
ANSWER: Aphra Behn (the novel is Oroonoko.)
<Emmett Laurie, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 40% | 60% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 0% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto Rofl | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto Joy | Waterloo Miku | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo Hatsune | La Clique du Château | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Weary | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |