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ISBN-13: | 9780192859112 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 03/01/2022 |
Series: | Oxford Handbooks |
Pages: | 752 |
Product dimensions: | 9.81(w) x 6.84(h) x 1.52(d) |
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xvii
1 Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire Paddy Bullard 1
Part I Satirical Alignments
2 Corporate Acts of Satire Judith Hawley 23
3 Against Hypocrisy and Dissent Marcus Walsh 39
4 The Satire of Dissent George Southcombe 56
5 The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama Claudine van Hensbergen 74
6 National Identity and Satire David O'Shaughnessy 91
7 Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle Adam Rounce 108
8 Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity Robert W. Jones 125
Part II Satirical Inheritances
9 The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding Nicholas McDowell 145
10 The Invention of Dryden as Satirist Matthew C. Augustine 161
11 Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace Kristine Louise Haugen 177
12 Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire Daniel Carey 193
13 Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad Sophie Gee 212
14 Augustan Romantics Matthew Scott 228
Part IV Satirical Objects
15 Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732 Paul Baines 249
16 Fable and Allegory Gillian Wright 266
17 Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires Bonnie Latimer 281
18 Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray Jesse Molesworth 298
19 Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder Jonathan Lamb 320
20 Dramatic Satire Ros Ballaster 336
21 The Practice of Parody David Francis Taylor 353
Part IV Satirical Objects
22 Satirical Objects Sean Silver 371
23 Science and Satire Gregory Lynall 387
24 Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire Paddy Bullard 403
25 The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence Helen Deutsch 420
26 Self-portraiture Louise Curran 438
27 'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity Melinda Alliker Rabb 457
Part V Satirical Actions
28 Thinking about Satire Ashley Marshall 475
29 Epigram and Spontaneous Wit Kate Loveman 492
30 Satire as Event John McTague 509
31 Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions Joseph Hone 525
32 Quarrelling Alexis Tadié 542
33 Sexing Satire Jill Campbell 558
34 Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth Lawrence E. Klein 575
Part VI Satirical Transitions
35 Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives James Fowler 595
36 Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (1741) Jennie Batchelor 613
37 The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and Other Effects Peter Robinson 628
38 Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel Lynn Festa 645
39 Satire in the Age of the French Revolution Jon Mee 661
40 Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province Carolyn Steedman 680
41 Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965 Clare Bucknell 696
Index 713