This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Paddy Bullard: Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire
- PART I: SATIRICAL ALIGNMENTS
- 2: Judith Hawley: Corporate Acts of Satire
- 3: Marcus Walsh: Against Hypocrisy and Dissent
- 4: George Southcombe: The Satire of Dissent
- 5: Claudine Van Hensbergen: The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama
- 6: David O'Shaughnessy: National Identity and Satire
- 7: Adam Rounce: Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle
- 8: Robert W. Jones: Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity
- PART II: SATIRICAL INHERITANCES
- 9: Nicholas Mcdowell: The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding
- 10: Matthew C. Augustine: The Invention of Dryden as Satirist
- 11: Kristine Louise Haugen: Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace
- 12: Daniel Carey: Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire
- 13: Sophie Gee: Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad
- 14: Matthew Scott: Augustan Romantics
- PART III: SATIRICAL MODES
- 15: Paul Baines: Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732
- 16: Gillian Wright: Fable and Allegory
- 17: Bonnie Latimer: Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires
- 18: Jesse Molesworth: Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray
- 19: Jonathan Lamb: Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder
- 20: Ros Ballaster: Dramatic Satire
- 21: David Francis Taylor: The Practice of Parody
- PART IV: SATIRICAL OBJECTS
- 22: Sean Silver: Satirical Objects
- 23: Gregory Lynall: Science and Satire
- 24: Paddy Bullard: Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire
- 25: Helen Deutsch: The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence
- 26: Louise Curran: Self-Portraiture
- 27: Melinda Alliker Rabb: 'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity
- PART V: SATIRICAL ACTIONS
- 28: Ashley Marshall: Thinking about Satire
- 29: Kate Loveman: Epigram and Spontaneous Wit
- 30: John McTague: Satire as Event
- 31: Joseph Hone: Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions
- 32: Alexis Tadié: Quarrelling
- 33: Jill Campbell: Sexing Satire
- 34: Lawrence E. Klein: Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth
- PART VI: SATIRICAL TRANSITIONS
- 35: James Fowler: Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives
- 36: Jennie Batchelor: Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela
- 37: Peter Robinson: The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and other Effects
- 38: Lynn Festa: Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- 39: Jon Mee: Satire in the Age of the French Revolution
- 40: Carolyn Steedman: Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province
- 41: Clare Bucknell: Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965