The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-century English FictionUniversity of Delaware Press, 1990 - 229 pagine A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. |
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List of Illustrations | 9 |
Fontenoy and Theory | 17 |
Tradition and Proliferation | 30 |
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Amelia Armies and Warfare Bakhtin Battestin battle battle of Dettingen Blenheim Boucé British Army campaigns Captain century chap civil Clarendon Press Colonel Jack comic commissions conflict criticism death depicted Dettingen edition hereafter cited eighteenth Eighteenth-Century England English expedition fear fiction Fielding's Fontenoy Fortescue French George grotesque Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Henry Fielding hobbyhorse Hogarth Homer Houyhnhnm human humour Ibid idea Iliad John Johnson Jonathan Swift Jones Kayser King language laugh laughter Laurence Sterne Lieutenant literary Literature London ludicrous madness March to Finchley Marlborough Methuen military motif nature novel officer Oxford University Press Peace picaresque play Poems political PWPS Rabelais reader recruiting regiment Renaissance ridicule Roderick Random satire scene siege soldiers spectacle standing armies Sterne Sterne's subsequent citations tesque theory tion Tobias Smollett Tom Jones trans Trim Tristram Shandy uncle Toby uncle Toby's veteran violence vols Walter Shandy William wound Yorick
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