Paddy Bullard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5959593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paddy Bullard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paddy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullard |
| SIGNATURE | BULLARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7193-0844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Long before the Industrial Revolution was deplored by the Romantics or documented by the Victorians, eighteenth-century British writers were thinking deeply about the function of literature in an age of invention. They understood the significance of 'how-to' knowledge and mechanical expertise to their contemporaries. Their own framing of this knowledge, however, was invariably satirical, critical, and oblique. While others compiled encyclopaedias…
Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Handbooks
A wide variety of seventeenth-century prose publications—often bearing the title words ‘enchiridion’, ‘manual’, or ‘vade mecum’—identified themselves as books-for-the-hand. This chapter argues that ‘handbooks’ (to use what was an exclusively antiquarian term during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) constituted a distinctive print genre during the early modern period, notwithstanding the diversity of their themes and functions. The associa…
Jonathan Swift in Context
A History of English Georgic Writing
The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the pres…
History of English Georgic Writing
Restoring the Wheelwright’s Shop
This article makes the case for a centenary restoration of George Sturt’s classic study of British vernacular craft at the end of the nineteenth century, The Wheelwright’s Shop (1923). It considers how the craft knowledge Sturt describes relates to his other craft – writing. It documents the book’s changing relevance to readers a century after publication. Approached by way of contemporary ideas about environmental sustainability, material cultur…
Against the Experts
This chapter looks at Jonathan Swift’s political satire, focusing on a crucial, seldom-discussed and newly relevant theme: his deep hostility towards specialists and experts. It argues that Swift and his allies understood expertise in terms of a broader anti-technical idea of statesmanship, one that also advocated ‘common sense’ as a positive model for political deliberation, and ‘wit’ as a model for discourse. Satire was a common medium for arti…
Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire
This introductory chapter looks at the problem of how we should describe eighteenth-century satire, and considers how to place it historically in the British eighteenth century. It gathers key literary extracts and anecdotes from the period, statements in which different discussions of satire intersect with larger ideas about the period’s culture and society. The chapter is organized into three sections. The first looks at satirical commonalities…
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century’s novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period’s philosophers and poe…
Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
The satirists and the experts
Attacks on the status of the mandarin classes have become a common feature of public debate since Michael Gove’s famous declaration that we have all "had enough of experts". But Gove echoes some old themes in British political writing. This paper uncovers the source of those echoes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writings on the ‘craft’ of government, and in contemporary satirical literature. In A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels Jonat…
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and ind…
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century
The field of eighteenth‐century studies at its broadest extent – taking in the English Restoration, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period – has changed significantly since the beginning of the twenty‐first century due to the impact of electronic resources on research methods and on the accessibility of primary research materials. Theorists of the digital humanities writing at the end of the previous century argued that the computerization of…
The Scriblerian Mock-Arts
During the first three decades of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Swift and members of his circle—which included Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot and Thomas Sheridan—wrote a series of satires on the technical prose of the day, referred to in this article as the “Scriblerian mock-arts.” These included Swift’s “Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,” Pope’s “Art of Sinking in Poetry,” Gay’s Trivia , and Arbuthnot’s Art of Political Lying . Th…
Digital Editing and the Eighteenth-Century Text
This article develops recent work by literary historians on miscellany publication, and on the printed miscellanies that were so important and popular for the early eighteenth-century book trade. It offers a history of the form, illustrated by comments made by the Duke of Buckingham, Francis Osborne, Sir William Temple, Charles de Sainte-Évremond, John Locke, John Wilson, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay. It e…
Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century
The field of eighteenth‐century studies at its broadest extent – taking in the English Restoration, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period – has changed significantly since the beginning of the twenty‐first century due to the impact of electronic resources on research methods and on the accessibility of primary research materials. Theorists of the digital humanities writing at the end of the previous century argued that the computerization of…
Digital Editing and the Eighteenth-Century Text
This article develops recent work by literary historians on miscellany publication, and on the printed miscellanies that were so important and popular for the early eighteenth-century book trade. It offers a history of the form, illustrated by comments made by the Duke of Buckingham, Francis Osborne, Sir William Temple, Charles de Sainte-Évremond, John Locke, John Wilson, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay. It e…
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and ind…
Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century
The field of eighteenth‐century studies at its broadest extent – taking in the English Restoration, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period – has changed significantly since the beginning of the twenty‐first century due to the impact of electronic resources on research methods and on the accessibility of primary research materials. Theorists of the digital humanities writing at the end of the previous century argued that the computerization of…
The Scriblerian Mock-Arts
During the first three decades of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Swift and members of his circle—which included Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot and Thomas Sheridan—wrote a series of satires on the technical prose of the day, referred to in this article as the “Scriblerian mock-arts.” These included Swift’s “Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,” Pope’s “Art of Sinking in Poetry,” Gay’s Trivia , and Arbuthnot’s Art of Political Lying . Th…
The satirists and the experts
Attacks on the status of the mandarin classes have become a common feature of public debate since Michael Gove’s famous declaration that we have all "had enough of experts". But Gove echoes some old themes in British political writing. This paper uncovers the source of those echoes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writings on the ‘craft’ of government, and in contemporary satirical literature. In A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels Jonat…
Against the Experts
This chapter looks at Jonathan Swift’s political satire, focusing on a crucial, seldom-discussed and newly relevant theme: his deep hostility towards specialists and experts. It argues that Swift and his allies understood expertise in terms of a broader anti-technical idea of statesmanship, one that also advocated ‘common sense’ as a positive model for political deliberation, and ‘wit’ as a model for discourse. Satire was a common medium for arti…
Describing Eighteenth-Century British Satire
This introductory chapter looks at the problem of how we should describe eighteenth-century satire, and considers how to place it historically in the British eighteenth century. It gathers key literary extracts and anecdotes from the period, statements in which different discussions of satire intersect with larger ideas about the period’s culture and society. The chapter is organized into three sections. The first looks at satirical commonalities…
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century’s novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period’s philosophers and poe…
Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
Restoring the Wheelwright’s Shop
This article makes the case for a centenary restoration of George Sturt’s classic study of British vernacular craft at the end of the nineteenth century, The Wheelwright’s Shop (1923). It considers how the craft knowledge Sturt describes relates to his other craft – writing. It documents the book’s changing relevance to readers a century after publication. Approached by way of contemporary ideas about environmental sustainability, material cultur…
A History of English Georgic Writing
The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the pres…
History of English Georgic Writing
Jonathan Swift in Context
Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Long before the Industrial Revolution was deplored by the Romantics or documented by the Victorians, eighteenth-century British writers were thinking deeply about the function of literature in an age of invention. They understood the significance of 'how-to' knowledge and mechanical expertise to their contemporaries. Their own framing of this knowledge, however, was invariably satirical, critical, and oblique. While others compiled encyclopaedias…
Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Handbooks
A wide variety of seventeenth-century prose publications—often bearing the title words ‘enchiridion’, ‘manual’, or ‘vade mecum’—identified themselves as books-for-the-hand. This chapter argues that ‘handbooks’ (to use what was an exclusively antiquarian term during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) constituted a distinctive print genre during the early modern period, notwithstanding the diversity of their themes and functions. The associa…
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