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English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702

English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 019925561X
ISBN13: 9780199255610
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 7 2004
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the first comprehensive survey of this vast field, Harold Love considers the relationship of the lampoon to gossip, how one might construct a poetics of the genre, and how clandestine satire reached and was received by its readers. Constructing three primary categories of court, Town and state lampooning, Love argues that far from being the product of isolated disaffection, most satire was the work of a circle of recognized poets, frequently operating in collaboration. An extensive first-line index to the principal manuscript sources for clandestine satire makes this book an open sesame to further exploration of its fascinating field.

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