Satire and the Public Emotions

AvRobert Phiddian

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The dream of political satire - to fearlessly speak truth to power - is not matched by its actual effects. This study explores the role of satirical communication in licensing public expression of harsh emotions defined in neuroscience as the CAD (contempt, anger, disgust) triad. The mobilisation of these emotions is a fundamental distinction between satirical and comic laughter. Phiddian pursues this argument particularly through an account of Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries. They played a crucial role in the early eighteenth century to make space in the public sphere for intemperate dissent, an essential condition of free political expression.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-02
Mått:153 x 228 x 5 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Antal sidor:84
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108798839

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Robert Phiddian is Professor of English at Flinders University. He is author of Swift's Parody (1995) and (with Julian Meyrick and Tully Barnett) What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture (2018). He edited (with Haydon Manning) Comic Commentators – Contemporary Political Cartooning in Australia (2008) and (with David Lemmings and Heather Kerr) Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2016). He is author or co-author of nearly fifty academic articles or chapters. He was the founding director of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (2011-17) and sits on the board of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The functions of satire; 2. Satire and the contempt, anger, disgust (CAD) triad of emotions; 3. The passions, satire, and liberty of expression in the craftsman moment; 4. Gulliver's Travels – 'wit, confederated with truth'; 5. Epilogue. Satire in the digital age.