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Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire - "The Scope in Ev'ry Page" (Paperback)
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Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire - "The Scope in Ev'ry Page" (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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This study interprets eighteenth-century satire's famous
typographical obsession as a fraught response to the
Enlightenment's "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well
as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as
increasingly "visual" - a moment at which widespread attention was
being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching
advertising strategies. On the one hand, the Augustans were
convinced of the ability of their elaborately printed texts to
function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New
Science, enhancing readers' physical but also moral vision. On the
other hand, they feared that an overly scrutinizing gaze might
undermine the viewer's natural faculty for candor and sympathy,
delight and desire. In readings of Pope, Swift, and Montagu,
Mannheimer shows how this distrust of the empirical gaze led to a
reconsideration of the ethics, and most specifically the gender
politics, of ocularcentrism. Whereas Montagu effected this
reconsideration by directly satirizing both the era's faith in the
visual and its attendant publishing strategies, Pope and Swift
pursued their critique via print itself: thus whether via
facing-page translations, fictional editors, or disingenuous
footnotes, these writers sought to ensure that typography never
became either a mere tool of (or target for) the objectifying gaze,
but rather that it remained a dynamic and interactive medium by
which readers could learn both to see and to see themselves seeing.
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