Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

by Claude Julien Rawson

Book Overview

This elegantly written book examines the evolution of satirical writing in the long eighteenth century--from Swift and Pope to Byron, Shelley, and Austen--and the social and cultural changes that conditioned it.

"Rawson is himself an Augustan among critics, expressing worlds of scholarship with a pungent and delightful humanism."--Donald Lyons, New Criterion

"A luxuriant hybrid of keen literary criticism and well-documented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300079168
• ISBN13: 9780300079166
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"