TY - BOOK ID - 129072681 TI - Satire and secrecy in English literature from 1650 to 1750 PY - 2007 SN - 9781349539918 1349539910 PB - New York (N.Y.) : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - English literature KW - English literature KW - English literature. KW - Intellectual life. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. KW - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. KW - Literature. KW - Satire. KW - Satire. KW - Secrecy in literature. KW - Secrecy in literature. KW - Early modern. KW - History and criticism KW - History and criticism KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - 1500-1799. KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain KW - Great Britain. KW - Intellectual life KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129072681 AB - 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." ER -