This book surveys and interprets the hundreds of satirical poems
and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic
period. Although satire was a major genre with a wide readership,
such works have been largely neglected by literary scholars,
satisfied that satire disappeared in the late eighteenth century.
Paying as much attention to now-forgotten figures like John Wolcot
('Peter Pindar') and Jane Taylor as to Byron, Gary Dyer argues that
contemporary political and social conflicts gave new meanings to
conventions of satire inherited from classical Rome and
eighteenth-century England. Situating these satires in their
cultural and material context sheds light on issues such as the
tactics satirists used to deflect prosecution for sedition, and the
ramification for women writers of satire's 'masculine'
connotations. The book includes a bibliography of more than 700
volumes containing satirical verses.
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