Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire

Addison Aeneid Alexander Pope allusions ambiguous appetite Arbuthnot attack Augustan literature Augustan satirists authority beef Beggar's Opera character civilisation classical comic contrast Cookery corruption couplets critics culture declared Defoe Defoe's dish Dryden Dunce Dunciad effect eighteenth century English Epistle Essay example Fielding Fielding's Gay's Gulliver's Travels heroic honour Houyhnhnms human Ibid imagery imagination instinctive ironic irony John Gay Jonathan Swift Jonathan Wild Jones Joseph Andrews kind King Lady language Lewis Theobald literary literature Lockit London Macheath metaphor mock-heroic models modern readers Modest Proposal moral narrator nature offer Oxford paradox parody passion pastoral Peachum philosophy phrase poem poet Poetry Pope Pope's Prose prudence recognise rhetorical Roman satirists Scriblerian sense shepherds social society stereotypes style suggests Swift Swift's satires taste Theobald Tibbald Tom Jones tone Tory traditional translatio studii values vanity vice violent virtue Vol.I Walpole Whig word writing