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Menippean satire reconsidered : from antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
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- Creator
- Howard D. Weinbrot
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 375 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801882104, 0801882109
- OCLC
- ocm57392343
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-360) and index.
- From Menippus the Gadaranean to Varro the Roman -- Petronius, Seneca, and Julian -- From Lucian the Debunker to Lucian the Blusher : revolution in the Menippean dialogues of the dead -- Changes : Menippus Redivivus, Menippus Idem, Menippus Sensus -- The preeminence of weeds : Swift's A tale of a tub and its parts -- A tale of a tub : "leze-majesté" and further joining -- Falling into the pit : A tale in its volume : The battle of the books and The mechanical operation of the spirit -- A tale of two cultures : Boileau's Art poétique in France and England -- Pope's Menippean essay on criticism -- Pope's Dunciad, Smithfield royalty, and subjects of disputation -- The Dunciad as notable poem -- Clarissa, Elias Brand, and death by parentheses
Subjects
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
- Satire, English -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Classicism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- English literature -- Classical influences.
- Satire -- Classical influences.