Introduction; Part 1. Swift and his Antecedents; 1. Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory David Rosen and Aaron Santesso; 2. Swift, Leviathan and the persons of authors Jonathan Lamb; 3. Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and the polemical tradition Ian Higgins; 4. Satirical Wells from Bath to Ballyspellan Harold Love; 5. Dryden and the invention of irony Steven N. Zwicker; Part 2. Swift and his Time: 6. Self, stuff and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire Barbara M. Benedict; 7. Swift's shapeshifting David Womersley; 8. Swift and the poetry of exile Pat Rogers; 9. Verses on the death of Dr Swift, reconsidered Howard Erskine-Hill; 10. Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726–1745 James McLaverty; Part 3. Beyond Swift: 11. Pope and the evolution of social class Nicholas Hudson; 12. Fielding's satire and the Jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page Thomas Keymer; 13. Jane Austen: satirical historian Peter Sabor; 14. Austen's voices Jenny Davidson; 15. The hungry mouth: parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo Ronald Paulson; 16. Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire Marjorie Perloff.