Contens IntroductionTheorizing Satire: A Retrospective Introduction - Brian Connery & Kirk Combe. PART 1: READING SATIREVapid Voices and Sleazy Styles - John Clark The Difference Satire Makes: Reading Swift's Poems - Fredric BogelPART 2: GENESES AND GENEALOGIES Satura from Quintilian to Joe Bob Briggs: A New Look at an Old Word - Gay SibleyThe New Voice of Political Dissent: The Transition from Complaint to Satire - Kirk Combe Styrs and Satire in Augustan England - Richard Nash From cheated Sight to False Light: Analogy in Swift and Churchill - Jon Rowland English Academic Satire from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism: Distinguishing the Comic from the Satiric - Christian Gutleben PART 3: SATIRE AND SOCIETYEarly Modern Complex Satire and the Satiric Novel: Genre and Cultural Transposition - Christian Bohnert The Culture Market, the Marriage Market, and the Exchange of Language: Swift and the Progress of Desire - Erin Mackie Economic Discourse in the Savoy Operas of W.S. Gilbert - Linda v. Troost. Index