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Satire in the Victorian Novel

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I On Satire

Alden, R. M.: The Rise of Formal Satire in England under Classical Influence. Univ. of Penn. Pub., Phil. Series, VII, 2, 1902.

Bergson, Henri: Laughter. (Translated by Brereton and Rothwell.) Macmillan, 1912.
Brown, John: An Essay on Satire. In Dodsley’s Collection of Poems.
Buckingham, Duke of: An Essay on Satire. In the Scott-Saintsbury edition of Dryden, XV.
Dryden, John: Essay on Satire. Above, XIII.
Flögel, Karl. Geschichte des Grotesk Komischen in Litterature, (reprinted.) 1886.
Garnett, Richard: Article on Satire in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Hannay, James: Satire and Satirists. Redfield, 1856.
Henderson, E. F.: Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution. Putnam, 1912.
Lenient, C.: La Satire en France au Moyen Age. Hachette, 1859.
Lenient, C.: La Satire en France au XV et XVI Siècles. Hachette, 1866.
Meredith, George: Essay on Comedy. Scribner.

Morris, Corbyn: An Essay towards fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule. London, 1743.

Neff, T. L.: La Satire des Femmes dans la Poesie Lyrique Français du Moyen Age. Paris, 1900.

Previté-Orton, C. W.: Political Satire in English Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1910.
Schneegans, H.: Geschichte der Grotesken Satire. Strassburg, 1984.
Tucker, S. M.: Verse-Satire in England before the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, 1908.

Comments on satire of a more incidental and yet interesting nature are found in prefaces and translations, in essays on kindred topics, and in general histories of literature. (In some cases it is hard to decide to which group a given citation should be assigned. A few are practically interchangeable.)

Ball, A. P.: The Satire of Seneca. Columbia University Press, 1902.

Besant, Sir Walter: The French Humourists from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries. Bentley, 1873.

Boileau, Nicolas: A short prose treatise published with the Satires.
Bourne, Randolph: The Life of Irony. Atlantic Monthly, III, 357.
Cannan, Gilbert: Satire. (Short monograph.) Doran.

Chesterton, G. K.: Pope and the Art of Satire. In Varied Types. Dodd, Mead, 1908.

Fuess, C. M.: Lord Byron as a Satirist in Verse. Columbia University Press, 1912.

Headlam, Cecil: Selections from the British Satirists. Robinson, 1897.

Jackson, Thomas: The Use of Irony. Introductory Essay to A Narrative of the Fire of London, by Peter Maritzburg. London, 1869.

L’Estrange, A. G.: History of English Humour. London, 1877.
Matthews, Brander: On American Satire in Verse. Harper’s Magazine, CIV, 294.
Myres, Ernest: English Satire in the Nineteenth Century. Living Age, 1882.
Paley, F. A.: Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets. Macmillan, 1892.
Smeaton, W. H.: English Satires. London, 1899.
Stokes, F. G. (editor): Epistolæ Obscurorum Vivorum. Chatto and Windus, 1909.
Symonds, J. A.: The Renaissance in Italy. (Vol. V, Chap. XIV.) Holt, 1888.
Taine, H. A: History of English Literature. Chapter on Thackeray.

Ullman, B. L.: Horace on the Nature of Satire. Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1917.

Van Laun, H.: History of French Literature. Introduction, and Book IV, Chap. I. Putman, 1876.

Wright, Thomas: Anglo-Saxon Satirical Poets and Epigrammatists of the Twelfth Century. London, 1872.

Wright, Thomas: A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art, 1865.

The satirists themselves who have been sufficiently self-conscious of their art to discuss it more or less include, on the Continent, Horace, Juvenal, Lucian, Cervantes, and Boileau; and in England, Barclay, Skelton, Gascoigne, Marston, Jonson, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Young, Johnson, Fielding, Churchill, Cowper, Wolcott, Gifford, Byron, Peacock, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, and Meredith.

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