The satires of Thomas Moore

Moore, Jane Veronica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5412-846X Moore, Jane, ed. 2003. The satires of Thomas Moore. British Satire, 1785–1840, London: Pickering and Chatto.

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Abstract

This is the first scholarly edition of Thomas Moore's satirical verse and includes a critical introduction and detailed explanatory and historical annotations.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History
Additional Information:	British Satire, 1785–1840 General Editor: John Strachan Consultant Editor: Steven E Jones 5 Volume Set: 2184pp: 2003 978 1 85196 729 2 espite the fact that Romantic period literary satire has received much recent critical attention, there has up to now been no scholarly collection devoted to this body of work. This set provides one, offering a representative collection of the verse satire published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. It makes available a wealth of fascinating, rare and hitherto unedited material and provides, for the first time, the annotation necessary to a full appreciation of the complexities of the period’s satire. The set also includes two important single-author volumes, the first scholarly editions of the satires of William Gifford and Thomas Moore. Satirical writing was widespread in the Romantic period; its masterpiece, Byron’s Don Juan, is part of a vibrant literary tradition which, in both its Romantic and anti-Romantic manifestations, has much to say about the spirit of the age. Often ideologically partisan, satire is also a significant political vehicle, used to great effect from both the right (in Gifford, Mathias, Blackwood’s and John Bull) and the left (in Blake, Shelley, Hone and Moore). The most significant political events of the day (the French Revolution, Pittite authoritarianism, the Queen Caroline crisis) resound through the satirical writing of the period, allied to fascinating social commentary on issues such as the position of women and the preoccupations of fashionable life.
Publisher:	Pickering and Chatto
ISBN:	9781851967292
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Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3753

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