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Article: Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2007
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Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. By HOWARD D. WEINBROT. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xviii + 375 pp. $60. ISBN 978-0-8018-8210-4.
This is, in its primary focus, a study of the Menippean characteristics of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century prose, or prosimetric, satire, most notably by Swift, Pope, and Richardson. The book thus revisits and complements the investigations of a flurry of criticism produced in the 1990s: Joel Relihan's Ancient Menippean Satire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), Peter Dronke's Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ...