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Abstract Edmund Burke’s critique of French political satire in 1790 launched a debate in England about the value of satire, its efficacy as a political tool, and its literary status. Burke deemed satire a political discourse, detached from traditional literary history, and he decried both its destabilizing influence on social order and ...
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Political Prints and Cartoon Satires
2000French culture was all-pervasive in England. The print satires and cartoons of the years 1748 to 1815 provide unequivocal evidence of this, and through the medium of ‘social icons’ one can gauge how widespread the Gallic phenomenon was perceived to be, and which areas of society France was believed most profoundly to have infiltrated.
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The Roots of Modern Political Satire
2020Abstract This chapter considers the evolution of the political print from 1500 through the mid-seventeenth century. This discussion examines satirical strategies employed by printmakers working at four key historical moments—the Reformation in Germany, the Dutch revolt from Spain, the French wars of religion, and the Commonwealth in ...
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The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics
Abstract This chapter revisits Burns’s early ‘kirk satires’ in the context of religious life in the poet’s own day and in relation to later critical readings of the poet’s views on religion. It shows how Burns was immersed in religious life via his Scots Presbyterian upbringing, how as an emerging poet he became directly involved in ...openaire +1 more source
The Road to Cynicism: The Political Consequences of Online Satire Exposure in China
Political Studies, 2019Li Shao, Dongshu Liu
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