This is a test
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750
Book details
Table of contents
Citations
About This Book
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."
Frequently asked questions
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750 by M. Rabb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Littérature & Littérature générale. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
Information
Topic
LittératureSubtopic
Littérature généraleTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Public versus Secret, Not Public versus Private
- 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 Dunciad
- 6 'A Life by Stealth': Autobiographical Satire in Manley, Swift, and Pope
- Conclusion: Postmodernizing Satire: Irony, Conspiracy, and Paranoia
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index