Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this selfimage. This was an age of satire, and the centurys novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The streetlevel invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the periods philosophers and poets, many of whom were parttime 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 EighteenthCentury Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenthcentury writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and...

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