Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750

M. Rabb

ISBN 10: 1349539910 / ISBN 13: 9781349539918

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008, 2008

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Neuware -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.'Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Apr 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349539910
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349539918
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 140 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 140 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 317 grammes

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Synopsis

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."

À propos de l?auteur

Melinda Alliker Rabb is Associate Professor of English and American Literatures and Language at Brown University.