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Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Recognizing British Women's Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Critical Legacy of Satire Theory versus Women's Writing Studies
Emerging Trends in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Women's Satire
A Methodological Approach for Studying Female Satirists
Notes
Part I Traditions and Breaks: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Satirists
Chapter 1 Women Writers and Juvenal: ''Singing plain truths''
Notes
Chapter 2 Unlocking the Dressing Room: Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris
A Dressing Room of Her Own
A Rebellion of ''pretty symbols''
Notes
Chapter 3 Aphra Behn and Traditions of Satire
The Age of Behn and Dryden and Masculine Traditions of Satire
Behn, Satire, and Generic Innovation in Poetry, Drama, and Prose Fiction
Notes
Chapter 4 Delarivier Manley: Satire as Conversation
Traditions of Male Satirical Combat
Secret History through Anecdotal Conversation
Reflections on Genre and Narrative Framing
Merging Genres and Inventing New Ones
Notes
Chapter 5 The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch
Notes
Part II Publicity and Print Culture: Women Satirists during the Mid Eighteenth Century
Chapter 6 Women's Satires of the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England
Notes
Chapter 7 Charlotte Lennox, Satirical Poetry, and the Rise of Participatory Democracy
New World Meets Old World
The Public Work of the Verse Satirist
The New Foundling Hospital for Wit
Notes
Chapter 8 Jane Collier's Satirical Fable: Teeth, Claws, and Moral Authority in An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
Notes
Chapter 9 Hiding in Plain Sight: Frances Burney as Satiric Novelist
Notes
Part III Moral Debates and Satiric Dialogue: Women Satirists and Eighteenth-Century Sociability
Chapter 10 Anne Finch, Anna Seward, and Women's Relation to Formal Verse Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Notes
Chapter 11 Satire as Gossip: Lady Anne Hamilton's The Epics of the Ton
Notes
Chapter 12 ''An invisible Spy'': Mary Robinson's Sylphid and the Image of the Satirist
Notes
Chapter 13 Austen's Menippean Experiments: Paternalism and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park
Austen's Early Burlesques of Economic Paternalism
Mansfield's Menippean Origins and Abolitionist Entanglements
Notes
Appendix Selected List of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Their Satiric Works
Alcock, Mary (c. 1741-98)
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Barbauld, Anna Lætitia (1743-1825)
Barber, Mary (1685-1755)
Barker, Jane (1652-1732)
Behn, Aphra (c. 1640-89)
Brereton, Jane (1685-1740)
Brooke, Frances (c. 1724-89)
Burney, Frances (1752-1840)
Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Cavendish, Margaret (c. 1623-73)
Centlivre, Susanna (c. 1669-1723)
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Recognizing British Women's Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Critical Legacy of Satire Theory versus Women's Writing Studies
Emerging Trends in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Women's Satire
A Methodological Approach for Studying Female Satirists
Notes
Part I Traditions and Breaks: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Satirists
Chapter 1 Women Writers and Juvenal: ''Singing plain truths''
Notes
Chapter 2 Unlocking the Dressing Room: Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris
A Dressing Room of Her Own
A Rebellion of ''pretty symbols''
Notes
Chapter 3 Aphra Behn and Traditions of Satire
The Age of Behn and Dryden and Masculine Traditions of Satire
Behn, Satire, and Generic Innovation in Poetry, Drama, and Prose Fiction
Notes
Chapter 4 Delarivier Manley: Satire as Conversation
Traditions of Male Satirical Combat
Secret History through Anecdotal Conversation
Reflections on Genre and Narrative Framing
Merging Genres and Inventing New Ones
Notes
Chapter 5 The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch
Notes
Part II Publicity and Print Culture: Women Satirists during the Mid Eighteenth Century
Chapter 6 Women's Satires of the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England
Notes
Chapter 7 Charlotte Lennox, Satirical Poetry, and the Rise of Participatory Democracy
New World Meets Old World
The Public Work of the Verse Satirist
The New Foundling Hospital for Wit
Notes
Chapter 8 Jane Collier's Satirical Fable: Teeth, Claws, and Moral Authority in An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
Notes
Chapter 9 Hiding in Plain Sight: Frances Burney as Satiric Novelist
Notes
Part III Moral Debates and Satiric Dialogue: Women Satirists and Eighteenth-Century Sociability
Chapter 10 Anne Finch, Anna Seward, and Women's Relation to Formal Verse Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Notes
Chapter 11 Satire as Gossip: Lady Anne Hamilton's The Epics of the Ton
Notes
Chapter 12 ''An invisible Spy'': Mary Robinson's Sylphid and the Image of the Satirist
Notes
Chapter 13 Austen's Menippean Experiments: Paternalism and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park
Austen's Early Burlesques of Economic Paternalism
Mansfield's Menippean Origins and Abolitionist Entanglements
Notes
Appendix Selected List of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Their Satiric Works
Alcock, Mary (c. 1741-98)
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Barbauld, Anna Lætitia (1743-1825)
Barber, Mary (1685-1755)
Barker, Jane (1652-1732)
Behn, Aphra (c. 1640-89)
Brereton, Jane (1685-1740)
Brooke, Frances (c. 1724-89)
Burney, Frances (1752-1840)
Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Cavendish, Margaret (c. 1623-73)
Centlivre, Susanna (c. 1669-1723)