The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660–1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British literary satire. Reflecting current pedagogical practice and scholarship, the anthology presents works by thirty satirists, including eleven women. The contents are expansive: they include canonical, frequently taught texts; less anthologized works by major satirists; and works by writers who have been traditionally excluded from anthologies. Biographical headnotes, crisp footnotes, and carefully edited texts make the book suitable for use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. By turns raucous, piercing, acerbic, winking, vexatious, and sly, the satires in the anthology will provoke fresh, dynamic approaches to this crucial literary period. “Much of the important satire written during the so-called ‘Age of Satire’ was initially published in literary miscellanies, and The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660–1750 does valuable work in reviving the copiousness and exuberance that characterized these collections. Evan Davis and Nicholas Nace assemble texts that are representative of the diverse range of the period’s satiric forms: mock-epics and mock-pastorals; Horatian, Juvenalian, and Ovidian imitations; Menippean satires; ironic fables; lampoons; satiric epistles; broadside ballads; parodies, burlesques, and travesties; graphic satires; and, notably, meta-satires and critical essays upon satire. Students will appreciate the judicious headnotes and footnotes, which place texts in their literary and cultural contexts without inordinately distracting from their satiric art. And specialists will be grateful to have, in a single volume, both canonical classics and satires that deserve to be better known. This anthology will fill a ‘hiatus’ (to borrow a Swiftian term) in the field.” ― Darryl P. Domingo, University of Memphis “Davis and Nace have assembled an anthology that will be the new starting point for anyone studying poetic satire of the Restoration and eighteenth century. The first volume of its kind published in over a generation, this anthology stands out for its inclusion of many women writers, its judicious headnotes and footnotes, and its selection of texts that speak both to one another and to the practice of satire itself. Whether your interest is in the era’s political and religious tensions, its contested constructions of gender, or simply its abundance of well-crafted bawdiness and invective, you’ll find plenty of material in this collection to keep you reading.” ― Jonathan Greenberg, Montclair State University The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660–1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British literary satire. Reflecting current pedagogical practice and scholarship, the anthology presents works by thirty satirists, including eleven women. The contents are expansive: they include canonical, frequently taught texts; less anthologized works by major satirists; and works by writers who have been traditionally excluded from anthologies. Biographical headnotes, crisp footnotes, and carefully edited texts make the book suitable for use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. By turns raucous, piercing, acerbic, winking, vexatious, and sly, the satires in the anthology will provoke fresh, dynamic approaches to this crucial literary period. Evan R. Davis is Elliott Professor of English, Hampden-Sydney College and editor of Robinson Crusoe (Broadview, 2010, 2014). Nicholas D. Nace is Elliott Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Hampden-Sydney College and editor of Shakespeare Up Close (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time (Northwestern, 2017). Together, they co-edited Options for Teaching Modern British and American Satire (MLA, 2019).