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
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- 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 (1741)
- 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
- Index