Paddy Bullard

Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Enlightenment Mock Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

The early Industrial Revolution was not ignored by eighteenth-century writers. They addressed it in the Enlightenment Mock Arts, a curious genre of satires that fed into Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy and Belinda. Paddy Bullard traces the oblique strategies that these authors used to avoid the constraints of Enlightenment instrumentalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009460521
• ISBN-10: 1009460528
• Artikelnr.: 72600017

Autorenporträt

Paddy Bullard teaches English Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His publications as editor include The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (2019), and A History of English Georgic Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With James McLaverty he co-edited Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Alexis Tadié, Ancients and Moderns in Europe (2016). With Timothy Michael he is co-editor of volume 15 (Later Prose) of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: enlightenment mock arts and industrial enlightenment; 2.
Daedalus and Proteus: satire and useful knowledge in seventeenth-century
England; 3. The Scriblerian mock arts: eighteenth-century satires of
didacticism; 4. Anthropologies of the mechanical arts: Robinson Crusoe and
Gulliver's travels; 5. Ingenuity, industry, experience: eighteenth-century
georgic; 6. Manuals of mock arts: the art of ingeniously tormenting and
Tristram Shandy; 7. The art of teaching to invent: Maria Edgeworth and the
lunar society.