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Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The early Industrial Revolution was not ignored by eighteenth-century writers. They addressed it in the Enlightenment Mock Arts, a curious genre of satires that fed into Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy and Belinda. Paddy Bullard traces the oblique strategies that these authors used to avoid the...

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Main Author: Bullard, Paddy
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2026
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Eighteenth-century literature
Satire
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
Online Access:https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171332
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Summary:The early Industrial Revolution was not ignored by eighteenth-century writers. They addressed it in the Enlightenment Mock Arts, a curious genre of satires that fed into Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy and Belinda. Paddy Bullard traces the oblique strategies that these authors used to avoid the constraints of Enlightenment instrumentalism.

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