The Springs of Liberty
Author | : Stewart Justman |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810117105 |
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"Justman considers satire not as a genre but as a potential available to different genres. He contrasts a line of English literature critical of journalism - writers such as Addison, Austen, and Trollope - with another less mannerly, represented by writers who exploded the stock formulas of which so much journalism is made, a line running from Swift through Dickens to Joyce and Orwell. Discussed too is the exploitation of the power of satire in political doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.