Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford

Download or read book Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford written by Daniel Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satirists have always painted themselves as paragons, correcting the foibles of their societies and punishing wrongdoers. By contrast, literary scholars emphasise the mode's indeterminacy, instability, and aggression, concluding that satire is too unpalatable to persuade, reform, or injure its readers. But what if they're looking in the wrong places?This new perspective on satire frames the question of satiric efficacy against three middlebrow writers: P.G. Wo.