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Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830

Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830

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  • Date Published: March 1994
  • availability: Unavailable - out of print October 1997
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521383950

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  • Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660–1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660–1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.

    • New book by well-known academic author and eighteenth-century scholar
    • An academic study in a readably witty and engaging style
    • Makes important advances in the study of satire as a genre
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    • Date Published: March 1994
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521383950
    • length: 327 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.6kg
    • availability: Unavailable - out of print October 1997
  • Table of Contents

    1. Rochester
    2. Oldham
    3. Mock-heroic and war I: Swift, Pope, and others
    4. Mock-heroic and war II: Byron, Shelley, and heroic discredit
    5. Revolution in the moral wardrobe: mutations of an image from Dryden to Burke
    6. The Tatler and Spectator
    7. Richardson, alas
    8. Boswell's life and journals
    9. Boswell's Life of Johnson
    10. Dining out in Paris and London: Thomas Moore's journal
    11. Satire, sensibility, and innovation in Jane Austen: Persuasion and the minor works.

  • Author

    Claude Julien Rawson, Yale University, Connecticut

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