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.
