The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts, Dates, and Money -- CHAPTER 1 Canonical and Noncanonical Satire, 1658-1770: Some Questions of Definition, Aims, and Method -- I. The "Definition" Quagmire and the Problem of Descriptive Terminology -- II. Genre versus Mode -- III. The Modern Critical Canon and Its Implications -- IV. The Total Satire Canon and Its Economic Context -- The Production of Satire in England, 1658-1770 -- Price, Format, Dissemination, and Implied Audiences -- V. Some Issues of Coverage and Organization -- VI. The Uses of a Taxonomic Methodology -- The Varieties of Satire -- Forecasting Some Conclusions -- The Nature of the Enterprise -- CHAPTER 2 Contemporary Views on Satire, 1658-1770 -- I. Concepts of Satire -- "Satire": Etymology and Terminology -- Definition by Contrast -- II. The Business of Satire -- The Opposition to Satire -- The Case for Satire -- III. The Practice and Province of Satire -- Acceptable and Problematical Satiric Methods -- Appropriate and Inappropriate Satiric Targets -- IV. Characterizing the Satirist -- V. Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Satire Then and Now -- CHAPTER 3 Satire in the Carolean Period -- I. Some Preliminary Considerations: Realities Versus Assumptions -- II. Dryden, Rochester, Buckingham -- Carolean Dryden: Lampoonist, Social Commentator, Propagandist -- Rochester: Skeptical, Provocative, Negative -- Buckingham's Purposive Satire -- III. Marvell, Ayloffe, Oldham -- Marvell as Polemical Satirist -- Ayloffe's Antimonarchical Diatribes -- Oldham's Juvenalian Performances -- IV. Hudibras and Other Camouflage Satires -- V. Personal and Social Satire: From Lampoons to Otway and Lee -- VI. Chronological Change, 1658-1685 -- VII. Issues: Satiric Intensity, Tone, Positives-and the Problem of Application -- Intensity -- Tone -- Presentation of Positives. The Problem of Application -- VIII. The Discontinuous World of Carolean Satire -- CHAPTER 4 Beyond Carolean: Satire at the End of the Seventeenth Century -- I. Altered Circumstances -- II. Dryden as Satirist, 1685-1700 -- III. Poetic Satire -- Tutchin, Defoe, and Political Satire -- Gould and Defamatory Satire -- Garth and Blackmore -- Brown, Ward, and Commercial Satire -- IV. Dramatic Satire -- Shadwell and Exemplary Comedy -- Mitigated Satire: Cibber, Vanbrugh, Farquhar -- Harsh Social Satire: Congreve and Southerne -- V. The State of Satire Ca. 1700 -- CHAPTER 5 Defoe, Swift, and New Varieties of Satire, 1700-1725 -- I. Defoe as Satirist -- Attack and Defense -- Instruction and Direct Warning (Aimed at the Audience) -- Indirect Exposure and Discomfiture -- II. Religious and Political Satire -- Topical Controversy -- Monitory Satire in the Manner of Defoe -- Ideological Argumentation: Dunton, Defoe, and Others -- III. Social and Moral Satire -- Generalized Satire -- Didactic Satire in the Manner of Steele -- Particularized and Topical Satire -- Argument and Inquiry: Mandeville and Prior -- IV. The Alleged "Scriblerians" -- V. Swift before Gulliver -- Jokiness and Play -- Destruction and Negativity -- Purposive Defamation and Defense -- Indirection and Difficult Satire -- VI. Characterizing the Early Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 6 Harsh and Sympathetic Satire, 1726-1745 -- I. Pope and Swift among Their Contemporaries -- Political Commentary and Combat -- The Culture Wars -- Social Satire -- II. Pope, Swift, Gay -- Pope -- Swift -- Gay -- III. The Problem of Meaning in Gulliver's Travels -- IV. Fielding and the Move toward Sympathetic Satire -- Playful Satire and Entertainment -- Provocation and Preachment -- Distributive Justice: Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones -- Fielding's Concept of Satire -- Sympathetic Satire. V. Alive and Well: The State of Satire at Midcentury -- CHAPTER 7 Churchill, Foote, Macklin, Garrick, Smollett, Sterne, and Others, 1745-1770 -- I. The Rise of "Poetic" Satire -- Frivolity and Entertainment -- Moral Preachment -- Particularized Attack -- Poeticized Satire -- Churchill's Nonpolitical Satire -- II. Wilkes, Churchill, and Political Controversy in the 1760s -- The North Briton -- Churchill's Political Satire -- Visual Satire -- Wilkes's Essay on Woman -- III. Satire in the Commercial Theater -- Social Comedy -- Lightweight Afterpiece Entertainment -- Samuel Foote -- Charles Macklin -- David Garrick -- IV. Satire in the Mid-eighteenth-Century Novel -- Smollett's Dark Satire -- The Late Career of Fielding -- Tristram Shandy and the Singularity of Sterne -- Charlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Fielding: Satire and Sentiment -- V. Satire for a Stable Era -- Epilogue: Toward a New History of English Satire, 1658-1770 -- I. Motives and Modes -- II. Remapping English Satire, 1658-1770 -- Appendix: Standard Price Categories and Sample Titles -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
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Satire, English-History and criticism. English literature-18th century-History and criticism. English literature-17th century-History and criticism.