Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintai

The book studies the intersections between satirical comedy and national politics in order to show that one of the strongest supports for our democracy today co

Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of sa

This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in th

Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590