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

ISBN: 9780521034098 出版年：1988 页码：274 Howard D Weinbrot Cambridge University Press

Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction: the achievement of Dryden's 'Discourse on Satyr' Part I. Contexts: 1. The pattern of formal verse satire in the Restoration and the eighteenth century 2. History, Horace and Augustus Caesar: some implications for eighteenth-century satire 3. Masked men and satire and Pope: towards an historical basis for the eighteenth-century persona Part II. Texts: 4. The swelling volume: the apocalyptic satire of Rochester's Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country 5. The 'Allusion to Horace': Rochester's imitative mode 6. 'Natures holy bands' in Absalom and Achitophel: fathers and sons, satire and change 7. The Rape of the Lock and the contexts of warfare 8. 'Such as Sir Robert would approve'? Answers to Pope's answer from Horace 9. The conventions of classical satire and the practice of Pope 10. Persius, the opposition to Walpole, and Pope 11. Johnson's London and Juvenal's third satire: the country as 'ironic' norm 12. No 'mock debate': questions and answers in The Vanity of Human Wishes 13. Pope, his successors, and the dissociation of satiric sensibility: an hypothesis Notes Index.