Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire |
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... literature of the early eighteenth century , indeed the literature of the entire century from the Restoration of Charles II to the accession of George III , is dominated by satire . It would be difficult to find another comparable ...
... literature of the early eighteenth century , indeed the literature of the entire century from the Restoration of Charles II to the accession of George III , is dominated by satire . It would be difficult to find another comparable ...
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... literature as Mesapotamian.1 Howard Weinbrot has reminded us of the important anti - Augustan elements in the literature of the period , and Maximilian Novak has suggested that ' perhaps the Brutan Age would be a more accurate ...
... literature as Mesapotamian.1 Howard Weinbrot has reminded us of the important anti - Augustan elements in the literature of the period , and Maximilian Novak has suggested that ' perhaps the Brutan Age would be a more accurate ...
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... literature . Richardsonian fiction seemed to offer the self- absorption of literary identification rather than the ... literature . Simple words such as ' knife ' or ' blanket ' carried such powerful suggestions of lower - class origins ...
... literature . Richardsonian fiction seemed to offer the self- absorption of literary identification rather than the ... literature . Simple words such as ' knife ' or ' blanket ' carried such powerful suggestions of lower - class origins ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
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