Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750. Melinda Alliker Rabb

Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750



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Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750 Melinda Alliker Rabb. pdf ebook Publisher: Language: English Page: 256 ISBN: 1403984344, 9780230609976

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"The significance of Satire and Secrecy would be in its suggestion of an explanatory/critical model for reading post-Augustan satire that brings a conception of secrecy (with its various employment of gossip, slander, secret history, and so on) into the picture as a key satiric strategy. Rabb's view of satiric secrecy would open up doors of understanding for numerous texts. Her study, provocatively and broadly contemplates a conceptual revision of the public/private divide."--Ruben Quintero, California State University, Los Angeles

About the Author

Melinda Alliker Rabb is Associate Professor of English and American Literatures and Language at Brown University. She has published widely in scholarly journals on topics pertaining to the long eighteenth-century. They include studies of Swift, Pope, Manley, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Godwin, women writers, satire, and the canon.