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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
Paddy Bullard is Associate Professor of English Literature and Book History at the University of Reading. Formerly he was a research fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent. He is the author of Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011). With James McLaverty he co-edited Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Alexis Tadié, Ancients and Moderns in Europe (Voltaire Foundation, 2016). With Timothy Michaels he is co-editor of volume 15 (Later Prose) of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope.
Summary
Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth-century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth-century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to the first decade of the seventeenth-century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.
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a collection of brilliant and intentionally provoking essays about how we have studied satire, how we study it now, and how, implicitly, we might study it in the future.
