Satire Book

	Time line	6
	Introduction	8
1	Approaching the subject	11
2	Approaching the texts	19
3	Texts and extracts	31
	Geoffrey Chaucer	31
	from The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue	33
	John Skelton	35
	from Colin Clout	37
	Ben Jonson	38
	from The Alchemist	39
	John Dryden	41
	from Absalom and Achitophel	43
	William Congreve	44
	from The Way of the World	45
	Jonathan Swift	46
	'A Meditation upon a Broomstick'	49
	from Gulliver's Travels	50
	from A Modest Proposal	53
	Alexander Pope	54
	from The Rape of the Lock	57
	from Moral Essays 'Epistle 4: On the Use of Riches'	58
	from 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot'	59
	William Hogarth	60
	Marriage A-la-Mode 'The Countess's Morning Levee'	61
	Jane Austen	62
	from Northanger Abbey	63
	Lord Byron	66
	from Don Juan	69
	Charles Dickens	70
	from Bleak House	72
	Arthur Hugh Clough	75
	'The Laste Decalogue'	77
	Mark Twain	78
	from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	80
	E. E. Cummings	84
	'next to of course god america i'	85
	'a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse'	85
	'ygUDuh'	86
	Evelyn Waugh	86
	from Decline and Fall	88
	Joseph Heller	89
	from Catch-22	91
	Carol Ann Duffy	92
	'Poet for Our Times'	93
	'Making Money'	94
	Steve Bell	95
	'Righty Ho!'	96
4	Critical approaches	98
5	How to write about satirical texts	111
6	Resources	118
	Index	125