Review
British Satire 1785-1840 is a mould-breaking resource for students and scholars of the period, an indispensable publication... I shall certainly be using [it] to teach my undergraduates... These books will be useful to generations of Romantic students and scholars and indicate the way forward for subsequent anthologists.'- Marcus Wood, The Wordsworth Circle'British Satire, 1785-1840 can be endorsed enthusiastically...the editors not only make satires available to far more readers at any time since the Romantic period, but also provide superb headnotes and annotation.'- Gary Dyer, Romanticism
Product Description
Despite the fact that Romantic period literary satire has received much 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 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, as well as lesser known and anonymous works.
