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Paddy Bullard (University of Reading)

Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Enlightenment Mock Arts

Paddy Bullard (University of Reading)

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Cambridge University Press
08 May 2025
Poetry; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); History of ideas; Publishing industry
Long before the Industrial Revolution was deplored by the Romantics or documented by the Victorians, eighteenth-century British writers were thinking deeply about the function of literature in an age of invention. They understood the significance of 'how-to' knowledge and mechanical expertise to their contemporaries. Their own framing of this knowledge, however, was invariably satirical, critical, and oblique. While others compiled encyclopaedias and manuals, they wrote 'mock arts'. This satirical sub-genre shaped (among other works) Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Edgeworth's Belinda. Eighteenth-century satirists and poets submitted to a general paradox: the nature of human skilfulness obliged them to write in an indirect and unpractical way about the practical world. As a result, their explorations of mechanical expertise eschewed useable descriptions of the mechanical trades. They wrote instead a long and peculiar line of books that took apart the very idea of an instructional literature: the Enlightenment Mock Arts.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781009460521
ISBN 10:   1009460528
Pages:   275
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paddy Bullard teaches English Literature at the University of Reading. He is the author of Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His publications as editor include The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (2019), and A History of English Georgic Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With James McLaverty he co-edited Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Alexis Tadié, Ancients and Moderns in Europe (2016). With Timothy Michael he is co-editor of volume 15 (Later Prose) of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope.

Reviews for Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Enlightenment Mock Arts

'Bullard has written what will become the how-to of how-to satire in the long eighteenth century. This is a thrilling and instructive read which invites us to think differently about the texts presented here through the lens of the mock arts.' Helen Williams, Associate Professor of English Literature, Northumbria University 'Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain is an original, percipient, and admirably wide-ranging approach to its subject: the paradox of eighteenth-century writing about practical skills that seem to defy written description. Bullard's erudite and engaging study explores connections between literary technique, cognition, and haptic epistemologies as ambivalent responses to the Industrial Enlightenment.' Nicholas Seager, Professor of English Literature, Keele University


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