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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750 1st Edition by Melinda Alliker Rabb ISBN 9780230609976 023060997X

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Authors:MELINDA ALLIKER RABB , Author sort:RABB, MELINDA ALLIKER , Published:Published:Feb 2008

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ISBN 10: 023060997X
ISBN 13: 9780230609976
Author: Melinda Alliker Rabb

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.”

Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 A History of Secrecy

2 Toward a Theory of Satire I: Gossip and Slander

3 Toward a Theory of Satire II: Secret History

4 Contracts and Promises: Speech Acts, Sex Acts, and Don Juan

5 Satire and Secrecy: Rereading The New Atalantis, Gulliver’s Travels, The Rape of the Lock, and The

6 ‘A Life by Stealth’: Autobiographical Satire in Manley, Swift, and Pope

Conclusion: Postmodernizing Satire: Irony, Conspiracy, and Paranoia

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