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

Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature. Contents Front Cover; Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. From Speech-Act to Print 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's and Pope's Typographical Training-Grounds of the Gaze 5. "That Spirit He Pretends to Imitate": Pope, Montagu, and the Letter and theSpirit of the Law6. Crossing Stage and Page: Pope's Four-Book Dunciad and the Critique of "Absorptive" Textuality; Coda: Theatricalized Print and the Reciprocal Gaze: GenderPolitics in Pope's Printed Playhouse; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary This study interprets eighteenth-century satire's famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment's ""ocularcentric"" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual"--A moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies. On the one hand, the Augustans were convinced of the ability of their elaborately printed texts to function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New Science, enhancing readers' ph Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index Notes Print version record Subject Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762 fast Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 fast Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 fast Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 gnd Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 gnd Montagu, Mary Wortley 1689-1762 gnd Englisch, ... gnd Swift, Jonathan. idszbz Pope, Alexander. idszbz Montagu, Mary Wortley. idszbz Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation. idszbzes Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation. idszbzes Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, 1689-1762 -- Criticism and interpretation. idszbzes Subject Satire, English -- History and criticism Verse satire, English -- History and criticism English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Vision in literature. Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. Authors and readers English literature Printing Satire, English Verse satire, English Vision in literature Women and literature Satire Verssatire. Englisch. Wahrnehmung. Satire, English -- 1650-1750. Visual perception in literature. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203817353 0203817354 9781136728570 1136728570

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