The Oxford handbook of eighteenth-century satire / edited by Paddy Bullard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bullard, Paddy, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Eighteenth-century satire

18th century satire

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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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 18th 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' 18th century. It focuses on texts that appeared between 1660 and 1789.

Contents:

Thinking about Satire / Ashley Marshall

The Invention of Dryden as Satirist / Matthew C. Augustine

The Satire of Dissent / George Southcombe

Against Hypocrisy and Dissent / Marcus Walsh

The Female Wits: Gender, Satire and Drama / Claudine van Hensbergen

Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire / Daniel Carey

Science and Satire / Gregory Lynall

Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad / Sophie Gee

Corporate Acts of Satire / Judith Hawley

Pamela and the Satirists: The case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (1741) / Jennie Batchelor

National Identity and Satire / David O'Shaughnessy

Mixing it: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732 / Paul Baines

Quarrelling / Alexis Tadié

Epigram and Spontaneous Wit / Kate Loveman

Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth / Lawrence E. Klein

Satire as Event / John McTague

The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and Other Effects / Peter Robinson

Sexing Satire / Jill Campbell

The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence / Helen Deutsch

The Practice of Parody / David Francis Taylor

Satirical Objects / Sean Silver

Self-Portraiture / Louise Curran

Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace / Kristine Louise Haugen

Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives / James Fowler

Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire / Paddy Bullard

'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity / Melinda Alliker Rabb

Banter, Nonsense and Irony: Churchill and his Circle / Adam Rounce

Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel / Lynn Festa

Legal Constraints, Libelous Evasions / Joseph Hone

Foxite Political Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity / Robert W. Jones

Satire in the Age of the French Revolution / Jon Mee

Augustan Romantics / Matthew Scott

Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province / Carolyn Steedman

The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding / Nicholas McDowell

Satire, Morality and Criticism, 1930-1965 / Clare Bucknell

Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire / Paddy Bullard

Fable and Allegory / Gillian Wright

Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires / Bonnie Latimer

Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray / Jesse Molesworth

Romance, Satire and the Exploitation of Disorder / Jonathan Lamb

Dramatic Satire / Ros Ballaster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191794179

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