The Fictions of Satire

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulson, Ronald, 1930-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire--History and criticism.

Satire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1967]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1967. In this study of the English Augustan satirists, and the Roman and subsequent authors who were their models, Professor Paulson shows how rhetoric relates to imitation, persuasion to presentation, and the imitation of the satirist to the imitation of the satiric object. He illustrates the tendency of the satirist to invade his own fiction and imitate not the prime object of his satire but the satiric persona, which consequently takes on a life of its own. By analyzing the satiric fictions of the precursors of the Augustans, the author reveals the elements they bequeathed to those who rode the high crest of the satiric wave in England, before the art of satire became submerged in the deepening trough of sentimental romanticism.Paulson shows the Tories Dryden, Pope, and Swift and the Whigs Addison and Steele to be the heirs of a long line of satirists ancient and modern, from Horace, Juvenal, Lucian, Apuleius, and Petronius to Rabelais, Cervantes and the English Elizabethan and Civil War poets. Taking Swift as his main example, Paulson examines the dualism of satire in its most interesting and ambiguous modes, and as the embodiment of rhetorical devices that are as complex mimetically as they are rhetorically.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Table of Contents

I. Rhetoric and Representation

Introduction

The Central Symbol of Violence

Relationship: The Fool and the Knave

Fiction as Device: Lucian

Satura into Prose Fiction

Picaresque Narrative: The Servant-Master Relation

II. From Panurge to Achitophel

The Satirist and the Satirist-Satirized

The Satirist as Knave and as Hero: Panurge and Pantagruel

The Satyr-Satirist and Augustan Realism

The Quixote Fiction

Turnus and Satan

The Fictions of Tory Satire

III. Swift: The Middleman and the Dean

From Rhetoric to Fiction: The Drapier's Letters

Swift's Version of the Tory Fiction

Swiftean Realism: The Bickerstaff Papers

Swiftean Picaresque : Gulliver's Travels

Swiftean Romanticism: The Satirist as Hero

Conclusion : The Fiction of Whig Satire.

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0522-8

1-4214-3057-6

OCLC:

1117490947