The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

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Author
David McNeil

Hardback
May 2005 • ISBN 978-0874133691 • $87.00


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A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift’s the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others.