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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
Melinda Alliker Rabb
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Description for Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
Paperback. This book develops a theory of satire that includes women writers and provides the postmodern reader with new critical tools with which to read ironic texts from the age of Swift and Pope. Num Pages: 235 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular culture, and postmodern theories of language as a potentially aggressive, injurious act. Although Habermas places satirists like Swift and Pope in the public sphere, this book investigates their participation in clandestine strategies of attack in a world understood to be harboring dangerous secrets. Authors of anonymous pamphlets as well as major figures including Behn, Dryden, Manley, Swift, and Pope, share at times what Swift called the writer's "life by stealth."
This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular culture, and postmodern theories of language as a potentially aggressive, injurious act. Although Habermas places satirists like Swift and Pope in the public sphere, this book investigates their participation in clandestine strategies of attack in a world understood to be harboring dangerous secrets. Authors of anonymous pamphlets as well as major figures including Behn, Dryden, Manley, Swift, and Pope, share at times what Swift called the writer's "life by stealth."
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349539918
SKU
V9781349539918
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About Melinda Alliker Rabb
Melinda Alliker Rabb is Associate Professor of English and American Literatures and Language at Brown University.
Reviews for Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
"The significance of Satire and Secrecy would be in its suggestion of an explanatory/critical model for reading post-Augustan satire that brings a conception of secrecy (with its various employment of gossip, slander, secret history, and so on) into the picture as a key satiric strategy. Rabb's view of satiric secrecy would open up doors of understanding for numerous texts. Her ... Read more