This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.
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