Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[14] “The end of Satire is reformation.” Preface to The Trueborn Englishman.

[15] “The true end of Satire is the amendment of vices by correction.” Preface to Absalom and Achitophel.

[16] “Now the author, living in these times, did conceive it an endeavour worthy an honest satirist, to dissuade the dull, and punish the wicked, in the only way that was left.” Preface of Martinus Scriblerus to The Dunciad.

[17] An Essay on Satire. Occasioned by the death of Pope. Inscribed to Dr. Warburton. In Dodsley’s Collection of Poems, Vol. III.

[18] Fielding: Covent Garden Journal.

[19] Preface to the Translation of Juvenal.

[20] Essay on Comedy, 76.

[21] The Renaissance in Italy, V, 270.

[22] Makers of English Fiction, 86.

[23] Scourge of Villainy, Satire II.