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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
Alliker Melinda Rabb
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Hardback. Num Pages: 235 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403984340
SKU
V9781403984340
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About Alliker Melinda 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