Description: Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-century Literature : Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity, Paperback by Herron, Shane, ISBN 1108995047, ISBN-13 9781108995047, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-century Literature : Dimensio
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature : Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Author: Shane Herron
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
