| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
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Law and literature (Oxford) |
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Law and literature (Oxford)
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| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Epigraph -- Introduction: The Perils of Satire -- 1 The Perils of Satire -- 2 Libel and Lampoon, 1670-1792 -- 3 Verbal and Bibliographical Evasions -- 4 Libel and Satire, Law and Literature -- 1. Keeping Out of Court I: Libel and Lampoon after Hale and Dryden -- 1.1 'Common Intendment' and the Regulation of the Press -- 1.2 Libel and Lampoon: Manuscript Satire during the Later Seventeenth Century |
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1.3 Lampoon without Libel: Mac Flecknoe, Verbal Evasion, and the Language of Satire -- 1.4 The Legitimation of Lampoon: Mac Flecknoe and the Satiric Shadow Canon -- 2. Keeping Out of Court II: Swift and the Illicit Book Trade -- 2.1 The Book Trade and the Law -- 2.2 The Act of Anne: Authorship, Ownership, and the Authorities -- 2.3 Deception and Detection: Projecting Readers, Evading the Authorities -- 2.4 Editing Authors: Language, Libel, and Liability -- 3. Irony in the Courts: Defoe and the Law of Seditious Libel -- 3.1 The Shortest Way and Extrinsic Irony |
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3.2 Malice, Intention, and Irony in the Law of Seditious Libel -- 3.3 'Be Wise as Somerset': Intention and Irony in R. v. Dr. Browne (1706) -- 3.4 Defending Defoe: 'Plain English without Design' -- 4. Naming in the Courts: Pope and the Dunciad -- 4.1 Gutted Names in Court: Before and After R. v. Hurt (1713) -- 4.2 Perceptions of Law: Slippage and the Problem of Legal Meaning -- 4.3 Gutted Names in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 4.4 More Precious than Life: Reputation in Early Modern England -- 4.5 Naming Victims: Pope and the Dunciad Variorum (1729) |
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5. Allegory in the Courts: Satire and the Problem of 'Libellous Parallels' -- 5.1 Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis, and the Limits of R. v. Tutchin (1704) -- 5.2 The 'Insolence of Drawing Parallels': The Craftsman and the Uses of Allegory -- 5.3 'The Generality of Readers': R. v. Clerk (1728/9), the 'Persian Letter', and Mist's Weekly Journal -- 6. Keeping Out of Court III: Caricature, Mimicry, and the Deverbalization of Satire -- 6.1 Satire in the Courts, 1695-1792: Legal Strategies for Regulating the Press -- 6.2 The Deverbalization of Satire: Caricature and the Limits of Libel Law |
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6.3 The Deverbalization of Drama: Samuel Foote, Mimicry, and Impersonation after the Stage Licensing Act (1737) -- Epilogue: A Shandean History of the Press -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This resource explores the mutually shaping influences of legal developments over the 18th century and the expression and form of satire in the period, from satirical literature to non-verbal forms including caricature |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2022 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 31, 2022) |
| Subject |
Libel and slander -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Press law -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Satire -- History and criticism.
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Lampoon -- History -- 18th century
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Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Booksellers and bookselling
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Lampoon
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Libel and slander
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Press law
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Satire
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| ISBN |
9780191938511 |
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0191938513 |
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