British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century

Amanda Hiner is Professor of English at Winthrop University, South Carolina. She publishes articles on eighteenth-century women writers, satire, and print culture, and edited the special topics issue of Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies entitled 'New Approaches to Eliza Haywood: The Political Biography and Beyond.' She is also a nationally recognized expert, researcher, and consultant in critical thinking. Elizabeth Tasker Davis is Professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas. She specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and is a past president of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Her publications include Wit, Virtue, and Emotion: British Women's Enlightenment Rhetoric (2021) and articles on eighteenth-century women writers and actresses.

Introduction Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis; Part I. Traditions and Breaks: 1. Women Writers and Juvenal: 'singing plain truths' Paul Baines; 2. Unlocking the Dressing Room: Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris Melinda Alliker Rabb; 3. Aphra Behn and Traditions of Satire Tanya Caldwell; 4. Delarivier Manley: Satire as Conversation Rachel Carnell; 5. The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch Sharon Smith; Part II. Publicity and Print Culture: Women Satirists during the Mid-Eighteenth Century: 6. Women's Satires of the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England Catherine Ingrassia; 7. Charlotte Lennox, Satirical Poetry, and the Rise of Participatory Democracy Susan Carlile; 8. Jane Collier's Satirical Fable: Teeth, Claws, and Moral Authority in An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting Martha F. Bowden; 9. Hiding in Plain Sight: Frances Burney as Satiric Novelist Marilyn Francus; Part III. Moral Debates and Satiric Dialogue: Women Satirists and Eighteenth-Century Sociability: 10. Anne Finch, Anna Seward, and Women's Relation to Formal Verse Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century Claudia Thomas Kairoff; 11. Satire as Gossip: Lady Anne Hamilton's The Epics of the Ton Michael Edson; 12. 'An invisible spy': Mary Robinson's Sylphid and the Image of the Satirist Rayna Rosenova; 13. Austen's Menippean Experiments: Paternalism and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park Danielle Spratt.