Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.

'This is a very valuable book that provides a clear introduction to the mock-heroic, its literary manifestations throughtout the eighteenth century, and the forms of life and habits of mind that go along with it... Its breadth and clarity will make it useful for students in the early stages of grappling with the genre, and also for those students and academics developing a sense of mock-heroic in eighteenth-century discourse in general.' Modern Language Review

• Contents: Introduction; Mock-heroic in the English Augustan Era; Butler's Hudibras: heroic impertinence; Blackmore and the low sublime; Mock-heroic and luxury: the heroi-comical poem; Mock-heroic and gallantry: Pope's Rape of the Lock; The rhetoric of Augustan mockery; Mock-heroic and grace: the case of Cowper; On laughter and ludicrous composition; Bibliography; Index.

Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.

'This is a very valuable book that provides a clear introduction to the mock-heroic, its literary manifestations throughtout the eighteenth century, and the forms of life and habits of mind that go along with it... Its breadth and clarity will make it useful for students in the early stages of grappling with the genre, and also for those students and academics developing a sense of mock-heroic in eighteenth-century discourse in general.' Modern Language Review

• Contents: Introduction; Mock-heroic in the English Augustan Era; Butler's Hudibras: heroic impertinence; Blackmore and the low sublime; Mock-heroic and luxury: the heroi-comical poem; Mock-heroic and gallantry: Pope's Rape of the Lock; The rhetoric of Augustan mockery; Mock-heroic and grace: the case of Cowper; On laughter and ludicrous composition; Bibliography; Index.

Richard Terry is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is the author of Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 (2001), and has written numerous articles on the literary culture of the eighteenth century.

'This is a very valuable book that provides a clear introduction to the mock-heroic, its literary manifestations throughtout the eighteenth century, and the forms of life and habits of mind that go along with it... Its breadth and clarity will make it useful for students in the early stages of grappling with the genre, and also for those students and academics developing a sense of mock-heroic in eighteenth-century discourse in general.' Modern Language Review

• Contents: Introduction; Mock-heroic in the English Augustan Era; Butler's Hudibras: heroic impertinence; Blackmore and the low sublime; Mock-heroic and luxury: the heroi-comical poem; Mock-heroic and gallantry: Pope's Rape of the Lock; The rhetoric of Augustan mockery; Mock-heroic and grace: the case of Cowper; On laughter and ludicrous composition; Bibliography; Index.