Introduction – Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors and Rikard Wingård
1 The politics of formal verse satire, 1598–1808: Juvenal, Boileau, Johnson and Cottreau – Howard D. Weinbrot
2 Anglo-Latin satiric verse in the long seventeenth century – Victoria Moul
3 Satire between the eaters and the meat: value and indifference before and in Donne’s Metempsychosis – Luke Wilson
4 Transcending boundaries: Rachel Speght’s instructive use of satire in A Mouzell for Melastomus – Mike Nolan
5 Milton among the satirists – David Currell
6 Petronius’ Satyricon in the seventeenth century: satire, eloquence and anti-Jesuitism – Corinna Onelli
7 Behind the mask: social satire in Bernini’s caricatures and comedies – Joris van Gastel
8 ‘More expensive of their powder, than of their lead’: fops, theatre and the late Stuart military – Máire MacNeill
9 The visual and the verbal: the intermediality of English satire, c. 1695–1750 – Andrew Benjamin Bricker
10 Aesop, intermediality and graphic satire, c. 1740 – Kate Grandjouan
11 Typesetting the borders: satire as a mediator in post-revolutionary Europe – Camilla Murgia
12 The interconnections of satire and censorship in Goya’s prints and drawings – Reva Wolf
13 Jumping the broom: a common-law wedding custom’s bristling visual satires – Lizzie Marx
Index

This edited collection examines the transformations of early modern European satire from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth century. Featuring contributions from both literary scholars and art historians, it maps the changes that satire underwent in becoming a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium.

Changing satire discusses the increasing dependence of satire on a proliferation of formats, including visual and textual media and various combinations of them. It also covers manuscript circulation, as well as the use of other literary forms for satirical purposes. Although the book discusses well-known satirists like Boileau, Swift and Gillray, it also engages with lesser-known material that previous criticism has ignored or relegated to the margins. While satire was a particularly important phenomenon in England in the period, the book traces developments in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, presenting discussion of how satirical texts and artwork could move between countries and languages.

Taking a wide historical view and addressing a range of formats, Changing satire significantly demonstrates the role satire had as a transgressor of borders.