4. The Eighteenth Century: A Prerevolutionary Setting

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. Origins of Satire in the Old World and the New 1
7. 2. The Sixteenth Century: The Conquest and the Years That Followed 23
8. 3. The Seventeenth Century: The Growth of Colonial Society 50
9. 4. The Eighteenth Century: A Prerevolutionary Setting 107
10. 5. A Reappraisal of Colonial Satire 155
11. Notes 165
12. Selected Bibliography 185
13. Index 197