The Oxford handbook of eighteenth-century satire / edited by Paddy Bullard ; [contributors, Matthew C. Augustine [and others]].
- Additional Titles:
- Eighteenth-century satire
Handbook of eighteenth-century satire - Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2019
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 719 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Bullard, Paddy
Augustine, Matthew C.
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire / Paddy Bullard -- pt. I SATIRICAL ALIGNMENTS -- 2.Corporate Acts of Satire / Judith Hawley -- 3.Against Hypocrisy and Dissent / Marcus Walsh -- 4.The Satire of Dissent / George Southcombe -- 5.The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama / Claudine van Hensbergen -- 6.National Identity and Satire / David O'Shaughnessy -- 7.Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle / Adam Rounce -- 8.Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity / Robert W. Jones -- pt. II SATIRICAL INHERITANCES -- 9.The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding / Nicholas McDowell -- 10.The Invention of Dryden as Satirist / Matthew C. Augustine -- 11.Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace / Kristine Louise Haugen -- 12.Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire / Daniel Carey -- 13.Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad / Sophie Gee -- 14.Augustan Romantics / Matthew Scott -- pt. III SATIRICAL MODES -- 15.Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732 / Paul Baines -- 16.Fable and Allegory / Gillian Wright -- 17.Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires / Bonnie Latimer -- 18.Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray / Jesse Molesworth -- 19.Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder / Jonathan Lamb -- 20.Dramatic Satire / Ros Ballaster -- 21.The Practice of Parody / David Francis Taylor -- pt. IV SATIRICAL OBJECTS -- 22.Satirical Objects / Sean Silver -- 23.Science and Satire / Gregory Lynall -- 24.Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire / Paddy Bullard -- 25.The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence / Helen Deutsch -- 26.Self-portraiture / Louise Curran -- 27.`Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- pt. V SATIRICAL ACTIONS -- 28.Thinking about Satire / Ashley Marshall -- 29.Epigram and Spontaneous Wit / Kate Loveman -- 30.Satire as Event / John McTague -- 31.Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions / Joseph Hone -- 32.Quarrelling / Alexis Tadie -- 33.Sexing Satire / Jill Campbell -- 34.Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth / Lawrence E. Klein -- pt. VI SATIRICAL TRANSITIONS -- 35.Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives / James Fowler -- 36.Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (1741) / Jennie Batchelor -- 37.The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and Other Effects / Peter Robinson -- 38.Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel / Lynn Festa -- 39.Satire in the Age of the French Revolution / Jon Mee -- 40.Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province / Carolyn Steedman -- 41.Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965 / Clare Bucknell.
- Summary:
- Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to first decade of the seventeenth century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature.0The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.
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- ISBN:
- 9780198727835 (hardback)
0198727836 (hardback) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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