Part I: Swift and his antecedents -- Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory -- David Rosen and Aaron Santesso -- Swift, leviathan, and the persons of authors / Jonathan Lamb -- Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and the polemical tradition / Ian Higgins -- Satirical wells from Bath to Ballyspellan/ Harold Love -- Dryden and the invention of irony / Steven N. Zwicker -- Part II: Swift and his time -- Self, stuff, and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire / Barbara M. Benedict -- Swift's shapeshifting / David Womersley -- Swift and the poetry of exile / Pat Rogers -- 'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift': the interest of cuts and gaps / Howard Erskine-Hill -- Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726-1745 / James McLaverty -- Part III: Beyond Swift -- Pope and the evolution of social class / Nicholas Hudson -- Fielding's satire and the jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page / Thomas Keymer -- Jane Austen: satirical historian / Peter Sabor -- Austen's voices / Jenny Davidson -- The hungry mouth: eucharistic parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo / Ronald Paulson -- Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire / Marjorie Perloff
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