Satire and Secrecy in English Literature from 1650 to 1750

1. Introduction
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2. A History of Secrecy
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3. Toward a Theory of Satire I: Gossip and Slander
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4. Toward a Theory of Satire II: Secret History
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5. Contracts and Promises: Speech Acts, Sex Acts, and Don Juan
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6. Satire and Secrecy: Rereading The New Atalantis, Gulliver’s Travels, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad
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7. ‘A Life by Stealth’: Autobiographical Satire in Manley, Swift, and Pope
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8. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature