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Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… of eighteenth-century literature. Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Keywords book market Satire Patronage commercialization Alexander Pope The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the … the most instrumental in immortalizing the negative notions of Grub Street was the poet Alexander Pope. Through several satires, but most importantly through his monumental poem The Dunciad (1728-1743), he collected all the criticisms … the critics constantly seem to enter into absurd discussions. This can also be understood as part of the Scriblerian satire that Pope developed together with his friends Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, John Gay and Thomas Parnell (see …

Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]

… century than that of his own day. People > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Daniel Defoe Whig Tory Satire print novel Robert Harley Friendship Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) had many social connections but he did not have … for holding political office in accordance with the Test Act, as ‘playing Bo peep with God Almighty’. 3   His notorious satire, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters  (1702), horrified his Dissenting brethren as much as it did his high church … social networking is closer to that of the twenty-first century than that of his own day. … Daniel Defoe … Whig … Tory … Satire … print … novel … Robert Harley … Friendship … Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks …

Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]

… sociability was not one to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Keywords ward Satire humour Tavern drunkenness impoliteness Club London Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most widely … ‘an infinity of clubs or societies for the improvement of learning and keeping up with good humour and mirth’. 8  Ward’s satire skewers this fashion, with almost four hundred pages detailing thirty-two clubs and their chief activities. Clubs … is peppered with comic half-rhymes, the full effects of which are only realised when read aloud. One of his political satires, The Galloper (1710), even noted in the preface that ‘the Terminations of the Verse’ are ‘such as measure no …

Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Keywords Insanity Confinement Punishment Entertainement Bedlam Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘A Curious Dance Round a Curious … were distorted into manifestations of madness. … Insanity … Confinement … Punishment … Entertainement … Bedlam … Satire … Bethlem Hospital …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… communicative strategies pursued by Tories and Whigs. Coffeehouses became highly frequented news markets, and topical satire represented the most popular literary product, greatly appreciated by readers in search of political satire and intellectual derision. Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Richard Steele gained a central role … forbid the publication of parliamentary debates, advertising increased and writers became authoritative public leaders. Satire and novels were successful editorial products that enabled witty writers to criticize not only power but also …