Satire in the Victorian novel

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The study analyzes the satiric impulse in nineteenth‑century English fiction, tracing its temperamental and ethical motives, critical definitions, and criteria for effectiveness. It situates satire within the novel, surveys authors’ attitudes, and distinguishes principal methods—romantic or fantastic invention, realistic modes in plot and character, and varieties of verbal and circumstantial irony. Chapters consider satiric objects, from individuals to institutions including family, marriage, state, church, education, and the press, and illustrate techniques and limits through close attention to major novelists' practices. The work balances appreciation and critique while mapping forms, difficulties, and the novel’s capacity for moral and comic appraisal.

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VITA

Frances Theresa Russell was born in Iowa in 1873, and in 1895 received the degree of Ph. B. from the State University. The year of 1898–99 was spent in graduate study at Radcliffe, her major subject up to this time being Latin.

In 1900 she married Dr. Frank Russell, of the Department of Ethnology of Harvard University, and during the remainder of his life was engaged in the study of Anthropology.

In 1906 she became assistant in Philosophy at the Leland Stanford Junior University, and in 1907, assistant in English. She was appointed Instructor in the English Department in 1908, and Assistant Professor in 1916. For the next two years she was registered as a graduate student in the English Department of Columbia University, and in 1919 resumed her work at Stanford University, California.