The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Edited by Paddy Bullard

Oxford Handbooks

A guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century
Brings together scholarship on authors from across the most important period of British satirical writing
Reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades
Fully incorporates readings of women writers and non-canonical authors into a full-scale survey of eighteenth-century satirical writing

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Edited by Paddy Bullard

Description

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Edited by Paddy Bullard

Oxford Handbooks

1:Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire, Paddy Bullard
PART I: SATIRICAL ALIGNMENTS
2:Corporate Acts of Satire, Judith Hawley
3:Against Hypocrisy and Dissent, Marcus Walsh
4:The Satire of Dissent, George Southcombe
5:The Female Wits: Gender, Satire, and Drama, Claudine Van Hensbergen
6:National Identity and Satire, David O'Shaughnessy
7:Banter, Nonsense, and Irony: Churchill and his Circle, Adam Rounce
8:Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity, Robert W. Jones
PART II: SATIRICAL INHERITANCES
9:The Double Personality of Lucianic Satire from Dryden to Fielding, Nicholas Mcdowell
10:The Invention of Dryden as Satirist, Matthew C. Augustine
11:Alexander Pope and the Philosophical Horace, Kristine Louise Haugen
12:Swift, Gulliver, and Travel Satire, Daniel Carey
13:Believing and Unbelieving in The Dunciad, Sophie Gee
14:Augustan Romantics, Matthew Scott
PART III: SATIRICAL MODES
15:Mixing It: Satire in the Miscellanies, 1680-1732, Paul Baines
16:Fable and Allegory, Gillian Wright
17:Burlesque and Travesty: Pope's Early Satires, Bonnie Latimer
18:Graphic Satire: Hogarth and Gillray, Jesse Molesworth
19:Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder, Jonathan Lamb
20:Dramatic Satire, Ros Ballaster
21:The Practice of Parody, David Francis Taylor
PART IV: SATIRICAL OBJECTS
22:Satirical Objects, Sean Silver
23:Science and Satire, Gregory Lynall
24:Against the Experts: Swift and Political Satire, Paddy Bullard
25:The Body of Thersites: Misanthropy and Violence, Helen Deutsch
26:Self-Portraiture, Louise Curran
27:'Little Snarling Lapdogs': Satire and Domesticity, Melinda Alliker Rabb
PART V: SATIRICAL ACTIONS
28:Thinking about Satire, Ashley Marshall
29:Epigram and Spontaneous Wit, Kate Loveman
30:Satire as Event, John McTague
31:Legal Constraints, Libellous Evasions, Joseph Hone
32:Quarrelling, Alexis Tadié
33:Sexing Satire, Jill Campbell
34:Ridicule as a Tool for Discovering Truth, Lawrence E. Klein
PART VI: SATIRICAL TRANSITIONS
35:Moralizing Satire: Cross-Channel Perspectives, James Fowler
36:Pamela and the Satirists: The Case for Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela, Jennie Batchelor
37:The Edge of Satire: Post-Mortem and other Effects, Peter Robinson
38:Satire to Sentiment: Mixing Modes in the Later Eighteenth-Century British Novel, Lynn Festa
39:Satire in the Age of the French Revolution, Jon Mee
40:Out of Somerset: Or, Satire in Metropolis and Province, Carolyn Steedman
41:Satire, Morality, and Criticism, 1930-1965, Clare Bucknell

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Edited by Paddy Bullard

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Edited by Paddy Bullard, Associate Professor of English Literature and Book History, University of Reading

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.

Contributors:

Matthew C. Augustine, University of St Andrews
Paul Baines, University of Liverpool
Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford
Jennie Batchelor, University of Kent
Clare Bucknell, University of Oxford
Paddy Bullard, University of Reading
Jill Campbell, Yale University
Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway
Louise Curran, University of Birmingham
Helen Deutsch, UCLA
Lynn Festa, Rutgers University
James Fowler, University of Kent
Sophie Gee, Princeton University
Kristine Louise Haugen, Caltech
Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of London
Claudine van Hensbergen, Northumbria University
Joseph Hone, University of Cambridge
Robert W. Jones, University of Leeds
Lawrence Klein, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University
Bonnie Latimer, Plymouth University
Kate Loveman, University of Leicester
Greg Lynall, University of Liverpool
Nicholas McDowell, University of Exeter
John McTague, University of Bristol
Ashley Marshall, University of Nevada, Reno
Jon Mee, University of York
Jesse Molesworth, Indiana University
David O'Shaughnessy, Trinity College Dublin
Melinda Rabb, Brown University
Peter Robinson, University of Reading
Adam Rounce, University of Nottingham
Matthew Scott, University of Reading
Sean Silver, University of Michigan
Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick
George Southcombe, University of Oxford
Alexis Tadié, Sorbonne Université
David Francis Taylor, University of Warwick
Marcus Walsh, University of Liverpool
Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham