Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[167] Stephen: Hours in a Library, Second Series. 347.

Another critic of another novelist makes the point by a vivid illustration:

“A rabbit fondling its own harmless face affords no matter of amusement to another rabbit, and Miss Austen has had many readers who have perused her works without a smile.” Raleigh: The English Novel, 253.

[168] Life and Letters, I, 207.

[169] The Renaissance in Italy, V, 8.

[170] Irony, Living Age, 259: 250.

[171] A Second Century Satirist, 187. A translation by W. D. Sheldon.

[172] Adventures of an Atom, II, 121.

[173] Randolph Bourne: The Life of Irony. Atlantic, III, 357.

[174] Corbyn Morris, in An Essay towards fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule.