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Assignment:

a) What's the place of women in Restoration and eighteenth-century satire? Why does it matter? Construct your argument in a detailed and critical consideration of TWO works. [Note: don't argue that Restoration and eighteenth-century satire is sexist. It is, as is pretty much all literature of the period. This is not an argument that needs to be made. Make your argument specific to the works you choose: what does it facilitate? Does it facilitate anything? Are there times/spaces when literature escapes the general sexism of the period? What happens then?]

b) Visual Satire: William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress (p. 2603 ff. in your anthology). Offer a close, critical reading of this visual satire from the eighteenth century. You will probably want to seek out the paintings (easily found online); the anthology contains only the black-and-white engravings. Compare this work with another by Hogarth - The Harlot's Progress, Marriage-a-la-Mode - or with one of the satires on our course (The Country Wife would be a good comparison).

c) your own satire. What outrages, annoys, amuses you about the world today? What, now, is a fit subject for satire? Is it different from what outraged, annoyed, amused the Restoration and eighteenth-century satirists? Will you be Horatian (gentle and tolerant) or Juvenalian (angry and bitter)? short (3- 4pp) satire: verse, prose, dramatic dialogue, OR video, or visual series likeHogarth's. pages discussion that considers how your work fits into the satiric tradition. (Remember, you have to demonstrate some research.)