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Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Texts, Dates, and Money Part 1. Canonical and Noncanonical Satire, 1658-1770 I. The "Definition" Quagmire and the Problem of Descriptive Terminology II. Genre versus Mode III. The Modern Critical Canon and Its Implications IV. The Total Satire Canon and Its Economic Context The Production of Satire in England, 1658-1770 Price, Format, Dissemination, and Implied Audiences V. Some Issues of Coverage and Organization VI. The Uses of a Taxonomic Methodology The Varieties of Satire Forecasting Some Conclusions The Nature of the Enterprise Part 2. Contemporary Views on Satire, 1658-1770 I. Concepts of Satire "Satire" Definition by Contrast II. The Business of Satire The Opposition to Satire The Case for Satire III. The Practice and Province of Satire Acceptable and Problematical Satiric Methods Appropriate and Inappropriate Satiric Targets IV. Characterizing the Satirist V. Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Satire Then and Now Part 3. Satire in the Carolean Period I. Some Preliminary Considerations II. Dryden, Rochester, Buckingham Carolean Dryden Rochester Buckingham's Purposive Satire III. Marvell, Ayloffe, Oldham Marvell as Polemical Satirist Ayloffe's Antimonarchical Diatribes Oldham's Juvenalian Performances IV. Hudibras and Other Camouflage Satires V. Personal and Social Satire: From Lampoons to Otway and Lee VI. Chronological Change, 1658-1685 VII. Issues Intensity Tone Presentation of Positives The Problem of Application VIII. The Discontinuous World of Carolean Satire Part 4. Beyond Carolean I. Altered Circumstances II. Dryden as Satirist, 1685-1700 III. Poetic Satire Tutchin, Defoe, and Political Satire Gould and Defamatory Satire Garth and Blackmore Brown, Ward, and Commercial Satire IV. Dramatic Satire Shadwell and Exemplary Comedy Mitigated Satire Harsh Social Satire V. The State of Satire ca. 1700 Part 5. Defoe, Swift, and New Varieties of Satire, 1700-1725 I. Defoe as Satirist Attack and Defense Instruction and Direct Warning (Aimed at the Audience) Indirect Exposure and Discomfiture II. Religious and Political Satire Topical Controversy Monitory Satire in the Manner of Defoe Ideological Argumentation: Dunton, Defoe, and Others III. Social and Moral Satire Generalized Satire Didactic Satire in the Manner of Steele Particularized and Topical Satire Argument and Inquiry IV. The Alleged "Scriblerians" V. Swift before Gulliver Jokiness and Play Destruction and Negativity Purposive Defamation and Defense Indirection and Difficult Satire VI. Characterizing the Early Eighteenth Century Part 6. Harsh and Sympathetic Satire, 1726-1745 I. Pope and Swift among Their Contemporaries Political Commentary and Combat The Culture Wars Social Satire II. Pope, Swift, Gay Pope Swift Gay III. The Problem of Meaning in Gulliver's Travels IV . Fielding and the Move toward Sympathetic Satire Playful Satire and Entertainment Provocation and Preachment Distributive Justice Fielding's Concept of Satire Sympathetic Satire V. Alive and Well Part 7. Churchill, Foote, Macklin, Garrick, Smollett, Sterne, and Others, 1745-1770 I. The Rise of "Poetic" Satire Frivolity and Entertainment Moral Preachment Particularized Attack Poeticized Satire Churchill's Nonpolitical Satire II. Wilkes, Churchill, and Political Controversy in the 1760s The North Briton Churchill's Political Satire Visual Satire Wilkes's Essay on Woman III. Satire in the Commercial Theater Social Comedy Lightweight Afterpiece Entertainment Samuel Foote Charles Macklin David Garrick IV. Satire in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel Smollett's Dark Satire The Late Career of Fielding Tristram Shandy and the Singularity of Sterne Charlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Fielding V. Satire for a Stable Era Epilogue I. Motives and Modes II. Remapping English Satire, 1658-1770 Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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