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- 020 __ |a 9781108834438 |q (hardback)
- 040 __ |a TJDX |b eng |c TJDX |e rda
- 099 __ |a CAL 022022056337
- 100 1_ |a Herron, Shane, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Irony and earnestness in eighteenth-century literature : |b dimensions of satire and solemnity / |c Shane Herron.
- 264 _1 |a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2022.
- 300 __ |a x, 238 pages : |c 24 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 520 __ |a "The conventional literary history of the eighteenth century holds that upstart novelists and other intensely serious writers worked against the conservative and ironic sensibility of an earlier generation of satirists. However, many of these ostensibly earnest writers were exceptional satirists in their own right, employing the same ruses, tricks, and deceptions throughout their work. The novels of such canonical figures as Behn and Defoe, for example, passed themselves off as real documents, just as an earlier generation of hack writers combined the serious and the absurd. Re-examining this nexus between the ludicrous and the solemn, Shane Herron argues that intense earnestness was itself a central component of the ironic sensibility of the great age of literary satire and of Swift's work in particular. The sensationalism and confessionalism of earnestness were frequently employed tendentiously, while ironic and satirical literature often incorporated genuine moments of earnestness to advance writerly aims"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 588 __ |a Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- 650 _0 |a English fiction |y 18th century |x History and criticism.
- 650 _1 |a Irony in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Satire, English |x History and criticism.