Satirical novelists / editor, Carl Rollyson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund), editor.

Series:

Critical survey of long fiction

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire--History and criticism.

Satire.

Satire--Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 301 pages) : portraits

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides essays of influential satirical writers such as William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and George Orwell.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Contributors ""; ""Satirical Novelists 1""; ""William S. Burroughs 3""; ""Cyrano de Bergerac 16""; ""Peter De Vries 28""; ""Margaret Drabble 39""; ""Henry Fielding 57""; ""Joseph Heller 73""; ""Gish Jen 85""; ""Diane Johnson 91""; ""Alison Lurie 103""; ""Mary McCarthy 114""; ""Vladimir Nabokov 124""; ""George Orwell 136""; ""Dawn Powell 147""; ""Francine Prose 155""; ""FranÃois Rabelais 163""; ""Laurence Sterne 172""; ""Jonathan Swift 187""; ""Voltaire 197""; ""Kurt Vonnegut 214""; ""Evelyn Waugh 228""; ""Fay Weldon 242""; ""H. G. Wells 253""; ""Colson Whitehead 263""

""Tom Wolfe 269""""Bibliography 276""; ""Glossary of Literary Terms 279""; ""Guide to Online Resources 291""; ""Geographical Index 296""; ""Subject Index 297""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613666024

9781280689086

1280689080

9781587659362

1587659360

OCLC:

781457156