Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 (Clarendon Lectures in English) 9780198744498, 0198744498
On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was
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Table of contents :
Cover
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660–1820
Copyright
Dedicatiion
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: 1660–1700 Faint Meaning: Dryden and Restoration Censorship
Strange elegy: Lachrymae musarum, Heroic Stanzas
Panegyric in print and script, Astraea Redux to Mac Flecknoe
Plays and parallels: Exclusion Crisis libel and the licensing lapse
Fable, history, translation: scourging by proxy
2: 1700–1740 Libels in Hieroglyphics: Pope, Defoe
Earless in Grubstreet
Wit, and punishment, and Pope: The Dunciad and after
Irony, intention, interpretation: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Defoe in the pillory
Allegoric histories: Windsor Forest, Robinson Crusoe
3: 1730–1780 The Trade of Libelling: Fielding, Johnson
Defeating the pillory: Mist, Curll, Shebbeare, Wilkes
Performance and print under Walpole
Fielding and Walpole: the art of thriving
Lives of the opposition poets
Johnsonian sedition: London, Marmor Norfolciense
4: 1780–1820 Southey’s New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel
Allegories, parodies, polemics: Walter Cox, William Hone, and others
The ‘King Chaunticlere’ trial: arbitrary innuendo and necessary sense
Trumpets of sedition?
Censorship, copyright, and Wat Tyler
The most seditious book that was ever written
Conclusion: England in 1820
Select Bibliography
Index
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Cover
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660–1820
Copyright
Dedicatiion
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: 1660–1700 Faint Meaning: Dryden and Restoration Censorship
Strange elegy: Lachrymae musarum, Heroic Stanzas
Panegyric in print and script, Astraea Redux to Mac Flecknoe
Plays and parallels: Exclusion Crisis libel and the licensing lapse
Fable, history, translation: scourging by proxy
2: 1700–1740 Libels in Hieroglyphics: Pope, Defoe
Earless in Grubstreet
Wit, and punishment, and Pope: The Dunciad and after
Irony, intention, interpretation: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Defoe in the pillory
Allegoric histories: Windsor Forest, Robinson Crusoe
3: 1730–1780 The Trade of Libelling: Fielding, Johnson
Defeating the pillory: Mist, Curll, Shebbeare, Wilkes
Performance and print under Walpole
Fielding and Walpole: the art of thriving
Lives of the opposition poets
Johnsonian sedition: London, Marmor Norfolciense
4: 1780–1820 Southey’s New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel
Allegories, parodies, polemics: Walter Cox, William Hone, and others
The ‘King Chaunticlere’ trial: arbitrary innuendo and necessary sense
Trumpets of sedition?
Censorship, copyright, and Wat Tyler
The most seditious book that was ever written
Conclusion: England in 1820
Select Bibliography
Index
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