Companion to Satire

Ruben Quintero is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His book Literate Culture: Pope’s Rhetorical Art (1992) received a University of Delaware Press Manuscript Award.

"This book forms a substantial contribution to literary studies and is likely to be the standard work on the subject for a decade or two … .The chapters are densely detailed, the vocabulary elevated." (Reference Reviews, Issue 4 2008) “The long eighteenth century is well represented in Blackwell's A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern, edited by Ruben Quintero,which contains nine full essays and parts of several others devoted to the period … .This sturdy volume should be of use to a variety of readers from advanced undergraduates to scholars seeking refresher (or crash) courses on either major satirists … or less familiar topics and subtopics.” (Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Summer 2008)"Offering a valuable contribution to the critical study of satire, Quintero has assembled insightful essays by an impressive roster of scholars...This book serves as a cogent, instructive overview of satire." (Choice) “This book obviously brings to readers a dazzling variety of topics relating to satire. There is a rich abundance of material here, surely something for everyone. Indeed, the quality of these essays is uniformly high. All are well-written, well-researched, thoughtful, and insightful examinations of an assortment of satiric expressions. The array of subject matter is compelling. Primarily, we are given thorough, informative overviews of the major players, issues, eras, and types of satire. This book … makes an invaluable contribution to the study of that form.” (Notes and Queries)

• Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: Understanding Satire 1Ruben QuinteroPart I Biblical World to European Renaissance 131 Ancient Biblical Satire 15Thomas Jemielity2 Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire 31Catherine Keane3 Medieval Satire 52Laura Kendrick4 Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire 70Edwin M. Duval5 Satire of the Spanish Golden Age 86Alberta Gatti6 Verse Satire in the English Renaissance 101Ejner J. Jensen7 Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England 118W. Scott BlanchardPart II Restoration and Eighteenth-century England and France 1378 Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France 139Russell Goulbourne9 Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 161Jean I. Marsden10 Dryden and Restoration Satire 176Dustin Griffin11 Jonathan Swift 196Frank Boyle12 Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 212Ruben Quintero13 Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe 233James Engell14 Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction 257Joseph F. Bartolomeo15 Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney 276Claudia Thomas Kairoff16 Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression 293Ronald PaulsonPart III Nineteenth Century to Contemporary 32517 The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine 327Peter Brier18 Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry 340Steven E. Jones19 Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century 361Frank Palmeri20 American Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain 377Linda A. Morris21 Twentieth-century Fictional Satire 400Valentine Cunningham22 Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century 434Timothy Steele23 Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater 460Christopher J. Herr24 Irish Satire 476Jose LantersPart IV The Practice of Satire 49325 Modes of Mockery: The Significance of Mock-poetic Forms in the Enlightenment 495Blanford Parker26 Irony and Satire 510Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit27 Mock-biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern 525Michael F. Suarez28 The Satiric Character Sketch 550David F. Venturo29 The Secret Life of Satire 568Melinda Alliker RabbIndex 585