Table of Contents
Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Understanding Satire 1 Ruben Quintero
Part I Biblical World to European Renaissance 13
1 Ancient Biblical Satire 15 Thomas Jemielity
2 Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire 31 Catherine Keane
3 Medieval Satire 52 Laura Kendrick
4 Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire 70 Edwin M. Duval
5 Satire of the Spanish Golden Age 86 Alberta Gatti
6 Verse Satire in the English Renaissance 101 Ejner J. Jensen
7 Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England 118 W. Scott Blanchard
Part II Restoration and Eighteenth-century England and France 137
8 Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France 139 Russell Goulbourne
9 Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 161 Jean I. Marsden
10 Dryden and Restoration Satire 176 Dustin Griffin
11 Jonathan Swift 196 Frank Boyle
12 Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 212 Ruben Quintero
13 Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe 233 James Engell
14 Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction 257 Joseph F. Bartolomeo
15 Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney 276 Claudia Thomas Kairoff
16 Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression 293 Ronald Paulson
Part III Nineteenth Century to Contemporary 325
17 The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine 327 Peter Brier
18 Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry 340 Steven E. Jones
19 Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century 361 Frank Palmeri
20 American Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain 377 Linda A. Morris
21 Twentieth-century Fictional Satire 400 Valentine Cunningham
22 Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century 434 Timothy Steele
23 Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater 460 Christopher J. Herr
24 Irish Satire 476 Jose Lanters
Part IV The Practice of Satire 493
25 Modes of Mockery: The Significance of Mock-poetic Forms in the Enlightenment 495 Blanford Parker
26 Irony and Satire 510 Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit
27 Mock-biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern 525 Michael F. Suarez
28 The Satiric Character Sketch 550 David F. Venturo
29 The Secret Life of Satire 568 Melinda Alliker Rabb
Index 585
