Satiric inheritance : Rabelais to Sterne / Michael Seidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidel, Michael, 1943- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire--History and criticism.

Satire.

Inheritance and succession in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arguing that satiric potential is latent in virtually all dispensation, succession, and inheritance narratives, Michael Seidel suggests a new and comprehensive understanding of satire's place in the more general context of narrative theory. The notion of inheritance shares with traditional narrative action the need to transmit and preserve form.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter One: The Satiric Dispensation

Chapter Two: Inheritance and Narrative Mode

Chapter Three: The Revisionary Inheritance: Rabelais and Cervantes

Chapter Four: The Internecine Romance: Butler's Hndibras

Chapter Five: A House Divided: Marvell'sLast Instructions and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel

Chapter Six: Fathers and Sons: Swift's A Tale of A Tub

Chapter Seven: Strange Dispositions: Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Chapter Eight: Things Unborn: Pope's The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad

Chapter Nine: Gravity's Inheritable Line: Sterne's Tristram Shandy

CODICIL

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691615677

0691615675

9780691643052

0691643059

9781400871032

1400871034

OCLC:

933516172