Charles A. Knight

The Literature of Satire

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521048705
• ISBN-10: 0521048702
• Artikelnr.: 23265308

Autorenporträt

Charles Knight recently retired as a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, of which he was one of the founding faculty, and where he still continues to teach. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century British literature; he has written Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: A Reference Guide (1994) and numerous articles for journals such as Modern Language Review, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the satiric frame of mind
Part I. Satiric Boundaries: 1. Imagination's Cerebrus
2. Satiric nationalism
3. Satiric exile
Part II. Satiric Forms: 4. Satire as performance
5. Horatian performances
6. Satire and the novel
7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk
8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.