Table of Contents

Introduction - Theorizing Satire: A Retrospective Introduction; B.Connery & K.Combe - PART 1: READING SATIRE - Vapid Voices and Sleazy Styles; J.Clark - The Difference Satire Makes: Reading Swift's Poems; F.Bogel - PART 2: GENESES AND GENEALOGIES - Satura from Quintilian to Joe Bob Briggs: A New Look at an Old Word; G.Sibley - The New Voice of Political Dissent: The Transition from Complaint to Satire; K.Combe - Satyrs and Satire in Augustan England; R.Nash - From Cheated Sight to False Light: Analogy in Swift and Churchill; J.Rowland - English Academic Satire from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism: Distinguishing the Comic from the Satiric; C.Gutleben - PART 3: SATIRE AND SOCIETY - Early Modern Complex Satire and the Satiric Novel: Genre and Cultural Transposition; C.Bohnert - The Culture Market, the Marriage Market, and the Exchange of Language: Swift and the Progress of Desire; E.Mackie - Economic Discourse in the Savoy Operas of W.S. Gilbert; L.V.Troost - Index

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Kirk Combe is Professor of English at Denison University, USA.