Comedy, satire, or farce? or the generic difficulties of Restoration dramatic satire / Deborah Payne -- The semiotics of Restoration satire / Rose Zimbardo -- Ideology, sex, and satire : the case of Thomas Shadwell / Jean Marsden -- The monster libell : power, politics, and the press in Thomas Otway's The poet's complaint of his muse / Jessica Munns -- Satiric embodiments : Butler, Swift, Sterne / Richard Braverman -- The mechanics of transport : sublimity and the imagery of abjection in Rochester, Swift, and Burke / Allen Dunn -- Credit exhausted : satire and scarcity in the 1690s / Robert Markley -- Angry beauties : (wo)Manley satire and the stage / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- The persona as pretender and the reader as constitutional subject in Swift's tale / Brian Connery -- Pharmakon, pharmakos, and aporetic structure in Gulliver's Voyage to . . . the houyhnhnms / James Gill -- Mary Davys's satiric novel Familiar letters : refusing patriarchal inscription of women / Lindy Riley -- Event as text, text as event : reading The rape of the lock / David Wheeler -- Mocking the heroic? a context for The rape of the lock / Nigel Wood -- Augustan semiosis / Charles Hinnant -- Pope and his dunciad adversaries : skirmishes on the borders of gentility / Claudia Thomas -- The invention of the countryside : Pope, the idiocy of rural life, and the intellectual view from the suburbs / Donna Landry -- The critique of capitalism and the retreat into art in Gay's Beggar's opera and Fielding's Author's farce / J. Douglas Canfield -- Blocked observation : tautology and paradox in the Vanity of human wishes / Jonathan Lamb -- Satire and the bourgeois subject in Frances Burney's Evelina / John Zomchick -- Goring John Bull : Maria Edgeworth's hibernian high jinks versus the imperialist imaginary / Mitzi Myers -- Elizabeth Hamilton's modern philosophers and the uncertainties of satire / Janice Thaddeus
