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This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical paradigms that accommodate women, popular culture, and postmodern theories of language as a potentially aggressive, injurious act. Although Habermas places satirists like Swift and Pope in the public sphere, this book investigates their participation in clandestine strategies of attack in a world understood to be harboring dangerous secrets. Authors of anonymous pamphlets as well as major figures including Behn, Dryden, Manley, Swift, and Pope, share at times what Swift called the writer's "life by stealth."

English literature --- English literature --- English literature --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. --- Literature. --- Satire. --- Satire. --- Secrecy in literature. --- Secrecy in literature. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- 1500-1799. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life