EP.3 - Satire & the Novel

 What is the difference between a satirical novel and a novel with satire in it? Adam and Jo are joined by Dr Helen Williams (Northumbria University) to talk about one of the best known satirical novels of all time: Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. 

In this episode Adam and Jo and Helen talk about:

• A Cock and Bull Story
• Alan Partridge
• Alexander Pope
• Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Charles Dickens
• Charlotte Brontë
• Comedy
• Form
• François Rabelais
• George and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
• Henry Fielding, Shamela
• Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
• Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
• Henry Mckenzie, Man of Feeling
• Jane Austen
• Jonathan Swift
• Jerome k. Jerome, The Men In a Boat
• Lady Mary Montagu
• Laetitia Pilkington
• Laurence Sterne
• Narrative
• Novels
• Political satire
• Reading and reading practices
• Reform
• Richardson, Pamela
• Robert Dodsley 
• Samuel Richardson
• Sensibility 
• Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
• Sterne, A Political Romance
• Sterne, A sentimental Journey
• Sterniana
• Steve Coogan
• Stewart Lee
• Tobias Smollett, The Diary of Humphrey Clinker
• The Trip 
• William Thackeray
• York in the Eighteenth Century

Join Jo and Adam again at the same time next week for: Satire and the ImageDo you need words to do satire? If a picture can say a thousand words, how much satire can it do? Adam and Jo are joined by Wendy McGlashan (University of Aberdeen) to talk about eighteenth-century print-maker, miniaturist and satire merchant, John Kay.