Eighteenth-Century Satire: Essays on Text and Context from Dryden to Peter Pindar

by Howard D. Weinbrot

Book Overview

Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most important essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century British satire. Divided into sections on 'contexts' and 'texts', the essays range widely and deeply across the spectrum of satiric kinds, satirists, satires, and scholarly and critical problems. In 'Contexts', Professor Weinbrot discusses the pattern of formal verse satire of blame and praise popularized by Dryden in 1693 and influential throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521034094
• ISBN13: 9780521034098
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"