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British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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- 1 online resource (320 pages)
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- 9781108945851, 1108938957, 9781108837361, 1108945856, 9781108938952
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- on1309018820, on1310337684
- Chandler, Mary (1687-1745).
- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Recognizing British Women's Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century -- The Critical Legacy of Satire Theory versus Women's Writing Studies -- Emerging Trends in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Women's Satire -- A Methodological Approach for Studying Female Satirists -- Notes -- Part I Traditions and Breaks: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Satirists -- Chapter 1 Women Writers and Juvenal: ''Singing plain truths'' -- Notes
- Chapter 2 Unlocking the Dressing Room: Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris -- A Dressing Room of Her Own -- A Rebellion of ''pretty symbols'' -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Aphra Behn and Traditions of Satire -- The Age of Behn and Dryden and Masculine Traditions of Satire -- Behn, Satire, and Generic Innovation in Poetry, Drama, and Prose Fiction -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Delarivier Manley: Satire as Conversation -- Traditions of Male Satirical Combat -- Secret History through Anecdotal Conversation -- Reflections on Genre and Narrative Framing -- Merging Genres and Inventing New Ones -- Notes
- Chapter 5 The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch -- Notes -- Part II Publicity and Print Culture: Women Satirists during the Mid Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 6 Women's Satires of the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Charlotte Lennox, Satirical Poetry, and the Rise of Participatory Democracy -- New World Meets Old World -- The Public Work of the Verse Satirist -- The New Foundling Hospital for Wit -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Jane Collier's Satirical Fable: Teeth, Claws, and Moral Authority in An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting -- Notes
- Chapter 9 Hiding in Plain Sight: Frances Burney as Satiric Novelist -- Notes -- Part III Moral Debates and Satiric Dialogue: Women Satirists and Eighteenth-Century Sociability -- Chapter 10 Anne Finch, Anna Seward, and Women's Relation to Formal Verse Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Satire as Gossip: Lady Anne Hamilton's The Epics of the Ton -- Notes -- Chapter 12 ''An invisible Spy'': Mary Robinson's Sylphid and the Image of the Satirist -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Austen's Menippean Experiments: Paternalism and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park
- Austen's Early Burlesques of Economic Paternalism -- Mansfield's Menippean Origins and Abolitionist Entanglements -- Notes -- Appendix Selected List of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Their Satiric Works -- Alcock, Mary (c. 1741-98) -- Austen, Jane (1775-1817) -- Barbauld, Anna Lætitia (1743-1825) -- Barber, Mary (1685-1755) -- Barker, Jane (1652-1732) -- Behn, Aphra (c. 1640-89) -- Brereton, Jane (1685-1740) -- Brooke, Frances (c. 1724-89) -- Burney, Frances (1752-1840) -- Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806) -- Cavendish, Margaret (c. 1623-73) -- Centlivre, Susanna (c. 1669-1723)