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02866aam a2200409 i 4500 001 F1A152121DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 210813t20222022nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021040200 020 $a 1108834434 020 $a 9781108834438 035 $a (OCoLC)1264173869 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d XII $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR858.I7 $b H47 2022 082 00 $a 827/.509 $2 23 100 1 $a Herron, Shane, $e author. 245 10 $a Irony and earnestness in eighteenth-century literature : $b dimensions of satire and solemnity / $c Shane Herron, Flinders University, Adelaide 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a x, 238 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Satire, English $x History and criticism. 650 1 $a Irony in literature. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Satire, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01105706 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Herron, Shane. $t Irony and earnestness in eighteenth-century literature $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 $z 9781108993227 $w (DLC) 2021040201 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1A152121DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search