The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
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- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 July 2019
- ISBN 9780198727835
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages752 pages
- Size 254x180x48 mm
- Weight 1512 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire
PART I: SATIRICAL ALIGNMENTS
Corporate Acts of Satire
Against Hypocrisy and Dissent
The Satire of Dissent
The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama
National Identity and Satire
Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle
Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity
PART II: SATIRICAL INHERITANCES
The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding
The Invention of Dryden as Satirist
Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace
Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire
Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad
Augustan Romantics
PART III: SATIRICAL MODES
Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732
Fable and Allegory
Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires
Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray
Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder
Dramatic Satire
The Practice of Parody
PART IV: SATIRICAL OBJECTS
Satirical Objects
Science and Satire
Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire
The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence
Self-Portraiture
'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity
PART V: SATIRICAL ACTIONS
Thinking about Satire
Epigram and Spontaneous Wit
Satire as Event
Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions
Quarrelling
Sexing Satire
Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth
PART VI: SATIRICAL TRANSITIONS
Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives
Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela
The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and other Effects
Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Satire in the Age of the French Revolution
Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province
Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965
