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  3. British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108938952
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938952
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
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Book description

This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars on eighteenth-century British women satirists showcases women's contributions to the satiric tradition and challenges the assumption that women were largely targets, rather than practitioners, of satire during the long eighteenth century. The essays examine women's satires across diverse genres, from the fable to the periodical, and attend to women writers' appropriation of a literary style and form often viewed as exclusively masculine. The introduction features a new theory of women's satire and proposes a framework for analyzing satiric techniques employed by women writers. Organized chronologically, the contributors' essays address a wide range of authors and explore the ways in which satiric writings by women engaged in contemporary cultural conversations, influencing assumptions about gender, sociability, politics, and literary practices. This inclusive yet tightly-focused collection formulates an innovative and provocative new feminist theory of satire.

Reviews

‘This book, thanks to the intellectual rigor of its essays and the generosity of its scholarly apparatus, merits a long and healthy shelf life.'

Katherine G. Charles Source: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

‘Anthologies of satire have noticeably ignored women satirists; much of the satire in their poetic, dramatic, and fictional works has been overlooked, dismissed, or ignored. This important collection of essays on women satirists is a major step toward correcting this glaring oversight.’

Vivian Zuluaga Papp Source: The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cat

‘This collection of thirteen essays offers a thought-provoking and enjoyable read, one that builds productively on recent major studies of eighteenth-century satire to argue that women writers played an innovative and productive role in it literary development. The individual essays, like satire itself, are always in dialogue, each contributor circling us backward and forward to recurrent ideas and acknowledging expanding trajectories. There is a true cohesion among the essays, and they function as a useful whole. Hiner and Tasker Davis should be commended for overseeing and fostering this careful and hugely valuable work that achieves its core mission of offering a theoretical and contextual framework for ongoing research.’

Claudine van Hensbergen Source: Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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