Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire: �The Scope in Ev�ry Page�

ISBN-13: 9780367866181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Katherine Mannheimer

Opis

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to forma

Spis treści

Introduction  1: From Speech-Act to Spectacle: Changing Modes of Satire at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century  2: Swift’s Tableaux, Montagu’s Table-Turning: Verse, Visuality, and Gender  3: Augustan Satire’s Textual Bodies: The Quest for an Ethics of the Eye  4: Pedagogies of Paranoia, Spaces of Adjudication: Swift and Pope’s Typographical Training-Grounds of the Gaze  5: "That Spirit He Pretends to Imitate": Pope, Montagu, and the Letter and the Spirit of the Law  6: Crossing Stage and Page: Pope’s Four-Book Dunciad and the Critique of "Absorptive" Textuality  Coda: Theatricalized Print and the Reciprocal Gaze: Gender Politics in Pope’s Printed Playhouse

O autorze

Katherine Mannheimer is an assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester, USA.