Satire and Sentiment, 16001830 by Claude Rawson
Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing from 1660 to 1830. He focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and 16th-century humanist sources and leading to writers like Flaubert and Yeats.
"Rawson is himself an Augustan among critics, expressing worlds of scholarship with a pungent and delightful humanism" Donald Lyons, New Criterion "A luxuriant hybrid of keen literary criticism and well-documented cultural history...This ranging synthesis of a reeling world is mind-expanding for critics and historians, specialists and generalists." Kenneth Craven, Scriblerian "Rawson's book shows that there is considerable life and interest left in relatively traditional literary history." Charles A. Knight, Eighteenth-Century Studies "Rawson marshals an army of erudite references from Statius to Maller to illuminate the major figures: Swift, Pope, Burke, Byron, and Shelley. His conversational style is wide-ranging in the best Augustan essay-mode." Laura L. Runge, Albion
Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300079166 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300079168 |
| Title | Satire and Sentiment, 16001830 |
| Author | Claude Rawson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2000-05-11 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
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