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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (Hardcover)
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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.
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