Satire, instruction and useful knowledge in eighteenth-century Britain : the Enlightenment mock arts /
"Long before the Industrial Revolution was deplored by the Romantics or documented by the Victorians, eighteenth-century British writers were thinking deeply about the function of literature in an age of invention. They understood the significance of 'how-to' knowledge and mechanical...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Enlightenment mock arts and industrial Enlightenment
- Daedalus and Proteus : satire and useful knowledge in seventeenth-century England
- The Scriblerian mock arts : eighteenth-century satires of didacticism
- Anthropologies of the mechanical arts : Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's travels
- Ingenuity, industry, experience : eighteenth-century georgic
- Manuals of mock arts : The art of ingeniously tormenting and Tristram Shandy
- The art of teaching to invent : Maria Edgeworth and the Lunar Society.