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

ISBN-13: 9780415890823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Katherine Mannheimer

Opis

This study interprets 18th-century satire's typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's 'ocularcentric' epistemological paradigms, and to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly 'visual'.

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.