Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Eighteenth-Century Fiction*