Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire |
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... society , and hence less amenable to comic stereotyping . In some ways this is true . Certainly there is little in democratic Western societies to rival the rigid protocol and byzantine rituals that denote precedence and rank at the ...
... society , and hence less amenable to comic stereotyping . In some ways this is true . Certainly there is little in democratic Western societies to rival the rigid protocol and byzantine rituals that denote precedence and rank at the ...
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... society . His exaggerated portrait of a society reduced to barter with sackloads of brass farthings is a graphic metaphor for the effects of political corruption and profiteering by absentees . For Pope , on the other hand , this ...
... society . His exaggerated portrait of a society reduced to barter with sackloads of brass farthings is a graphic metaphor for the effects of political corruption and profiteering by absentees . For Pope , on the other hand , this ...
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... Society and an enthusiastic experimenter . In 1732 he published a lengthy scientific study on The Nature of Aliments , and earlier had published learned essays on the usefulness of mathematics , the laws of chance and probability , and ...
... Society and an enthusiastic experimenter . In 1732 he published a lengthy scientific study on The Nature of Aliments , and earlier had published learned essays on the usefulness of mathematics , the laws of chance and probability , and ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
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