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Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Clearing the Ground: The Genre Who Ate the World Part I. Classical Practices and Early Modern Adaptations Chapter 1. From Menippus the Gadaranean to Varro the Roman 1. Knowing the Unknown Satirist 2. Reading Varro: I 3. Reading Varro: II 4. Moving Forward Chapter 2. Petronius, Seneca, and Julian 1. Petronius the Varied, Petronius! the Corrupter 2. Seneca and the Softened Pumpkin 3. Julian and the Uses of Ignominy Chapter 3. From Lucian the Debunker to Lucian the Blusher: Revolution in the Menippean Dialogues of the Dead 1. Lucian the Friend, Lucian the Scoffer 2. Menippus Polished: Fontenelle's Bon Esprit Cultivé 3. Fénelon's Menippus Moralized: Je T'Abandonne 4. The Amiable Underworld: Chudleigh, Fielding, and Lyttelton Chapter 4. Changes: Menippus Redivivus, Menippus Idem, Menippus Sensus 1. The French Satyr Ménippée: Discarding the Fig Leaf from Hell 2. The English Satyre Menippized: Idolatry and Hissing Geese 3. Juvenal, Winyard-Butler, and the Additive Art 4. Gentling the Mode: Relieving Asperities 5. Moving On Part II. Menippean Satire by Addition Chapter 5. The Preeminence of Weeds: Swift's A Tale of a Tub and its Parts 1. A Tale of a Tub: Apologetics and the Absent Foundation 2. A Tale of a Tub: Introductions: Parity and Disruption between Reader and Author 3. A Tale of a Tub: From Porch to House Chapter 6. A Tale of a Tub: "Leze-Majesté," and Further Joining 1. Ancient Homer, Ancient Church 2. Failed Reconciliation and Successful Schism 3. Something in Human Minds: Concluding Improvements Chapter 7. Falling into the Pit: A Tale in its Volume: The Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit 1. Boyle's Phalaris and Swift's Fitness for Combat 2. Classy Violence 3. Counter Attack: The Battle of the Books 4. The Battle Lost: The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit Part III. Menippean Satire by Genre Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Cultures: Boileau's Art poëtique in France and England 1. Boileau's Art poëtique: The Sun King's Rays of Light 2. Boileau's Art poëtique: prêtez à mes instructions 3. Point Out the Game: English Literary Wars vs. Boileau 4. Soames-Dryden: Translating, Imitating, Menippizing Chapter 9. Pope's Menippean Essay on Criticism 1. Pope's English Essay Through French Eyes 2. Pope's Essay: Make Use of ev'ry Friend--and ev'ry Foe 3. Such once were Criticks, Such the Happy Few Part IV. Menippean Satire by Annotation Chapter 10. Pope's Dunciad, Smithfield Royalty, and Subjects of Disputation 1. From Theobald to Bentley 2. From Eusden to Cibber 3. Reading the Poem Chapter 11. The Dunciad as Notable Poem 1. Notable Connections 2. The Prosaic Beginning and End 3. Defiance Through Norms Part V. The Menippean Incursion Chapter 12. Clarissa, Elias Brand, and Death by Parentheses 1. Hastening the End 2. Necessity, Justice, and Honor 3. Vested in Classical Armor 4. Bringing her Fortunes Down to Mine Conclusion: In Which Something is Summarized and Something About Evil is Speculated 1. Where we Were 2. Where we Might Go Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Satire, English -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
English literature -- Classical influences.
Satire -- Classical influences.