Andrew Benjamin Bricker

Libel and Lampoon

Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the mutually shaping influences of legal developments over the eighteenth century and the expression and form of satire in the period, from satirical literature to non-verbal forms including caricature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846150
• ISBN-10: 0192846159
• Artikelnr.: 62535733

Autorenporträt

Andrew Benjamin Bricker is an Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University and a Senior Fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He received his BA and MA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Stanford University. Before joining UGent, he was a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at McGill University and a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Perils of Satire
* 1: Keeping out of Court I: Libel and Lampoon after Hale and Dryden
* 2: Keeping out of Court II: Swift and the Illicit Book Trade
* 3: Irony in the Courts: Defoe and the Law of Seditious Libel
* 4: Naming in the Courts: Pope and the Dunciad
* 5: Allegory in the Courts: Satire and the Problem of 'Libellous
Parallels'
* 6: Keeping out of Court III: Caricature, Mimicry, and the
Deverbalization of Satire
* Epilogue: A Shandean History of the Press