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Sheridan’s School for Scandals Sheridan’s School for Scandals
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A Question of Anticipation A Question of Anticipation
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Esto Perpetua: The Rolliad, Probationary Odes, and Political Miscellanies Esto Perpetua: The Rolliad, Probationary Odes, and Political Miscellanies
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Foxite and Anti-Foxite Satire Foxite and Anti-Foxite Satire
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8 Foxite Satire: Politics, Print, and Celebrity
Get accessRobert W. Jones is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds. His most recent book, Literature, Gender and Politics in Britain during the War for America 1770–1785, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He is the author of several essays and articles on the political and literary culture of Georgian Britain and he is currently working a book entitled, The Theatre of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Drury Lane, Politics and Performance 1775–1787. Together with Martyn J. Powell, he is editing The Political Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in four volumes for Oxford University Press.
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Published:04 September 2019
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Abstract
The Foxites were both affable and scurrilous; resolute opponents of an encroaching executive, they were equally determined in their pursuit of pleasure. They took particular delight in satire, drawing inspiration from Pope and Churchill, while retaining a thoroughly Whiggish admiration for Milton. Poetry in a sense provided a consolation for a lack of political power after George III ousted them from office in 1784. This essay examines the literary works of the Foxites’ best writers—Sheridan, Tickell, and Richardson. Their diverse and innovative work, much of it written and published collectively, intervened in both political and cultural controversies, from the contested Westminster election to the appointment of Thomas Warton as poet laureate. Personal abuse is heaped on William Pitt and his ministers, all of whom are reviled as inept, effeminate, and insinuating. But there is fun too at the expense of modish literary forms as well as the ponderous nature of parliamentary procedures.
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