A Companion To Satire - Ancient And Modern

This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.



Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.

Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary 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.

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Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Understanding Satire: Ruben Quintero (California State University, Los Angeles).

Part I: Biblical World to European Renaissance:.

1. Ancient Biblical Satire: Thomas Jemielity (University of Notre Dame).

2. Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire: Catherine Keane (Washington University in St Louis).

3. Medieval Satire: Laura Kendrick (Universite de Versailles).

4. Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire: Edwin M. Duval (Yale University).

5. Satire of the Spanish Golden Age: Alberta Gatti (Saint Xavier University, Chicago).

6. Verse Satire in the English Renaissance: Ejner J. Jensen (University of Michigan).

7. Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England: W. Scott Blanchard (College Misericordia in Pennsylvania).

Part II: Restoration and Eighteenth-century England and France:.

8. Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France: Russell Goulbourne (University of Leeds).

9. Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Jean I. Marsden (University of Connecticut).

10. Dryden and Restoration Satire: Dustin Griffin (New York University).

11. Jonathan Swift: Frank Boyle (Fordham University).

12. Pope and Augustan Verse Satire: Ruben Quintero (California State University, Los Angeles).

13. Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe: James Engell (Harvard University).

14. Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction: Joseph F. Bartolomeo (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

15. Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney: Claudia Thomas Kairoff (Wake Forest University).

16. Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression: Ronald Paulson (The Johns Hopkins University).

Part III: Nineteenth Century to Contemporary:.

17. The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine: Peter Brier (California State University, Los Angeles).

18. Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry: Steven E. Jones (Loyola University, Chicago).

19. Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century: Frank Palmeri (University of Miami).

20. American Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain: Linda A. Morris (University of California, Davis).

21. Twentieth-century Fictional Satire: Valentine Cunningham (University of Oxford).

22. Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century: Timothy Steele (California State University, Los Angeles).

23. Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater: Christopher J. Herr (Missouri State University).

24. Irish Satire: Jose Lanters (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Part IV: The Practice of Satire:.

25. Modes of Mockery: The Significance of Mock-poetic Forms in the Enlightenment: Blanford Parker (The College of Staten Island and The CUNY Graduate Center).

26. Irony and Satire: Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit (Binghamton University).

27. Mock-biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern: Michael F. Suarez (Fordham University and University of Oxford).

28. The Satiric Character Sketch: David F. Venturo (The College of New Jersey).

29. The Secret Life of Satire: Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown University).

Index