English clandestine satire, 1660-1702 / Harold Love.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, Harold, 1937-2007.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Underground literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Underground literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Verse satire, English--History and criticism.

Verse satire, English.

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When late seventeenth-century readers wanted to inform themselves about happenings at the centres of power and fashion they had no newspapers or gossip columns to fall back on. Instead they turned to lampoons - frank, malicious, and often highly indecent accounts in verse of the real or fabricated goings on of the court and ruling elite. Harold Love presents the first comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious `state poems' that survive from Restoration England and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire. - ;In early modern Britain, t

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; A Note on Texts and Citations; 1 Origins and Models; 2 The Court Lampoon; 3 The Town Lampoon; 4 State Satire; 5 Lampoon Authorship; 6 The Lampoon as Gossip; 7 A Poetics of the Lampoon; 8 Transmission and Reception; Appendix: First-Line Index to Selected Anthologies of Clandestine Satire; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-420) and index.

ISBN:

9786611346263

1-281-34626-8

0-19-151450-0

OCLC:

476259450