TY - BOOK AU - McKee,John B. TI - Literary Irony and the Literary Audience: Studies in the Victimization of the Reader in Augustan Fiction T2 - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 SN - 9789004650459 AV - PR858.I7 U1 - 823/.03 23 PY - 1974/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Authors and readers KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Classicism KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - English literature KW - Roman influences KW - Irony in literature KW - Reader-response criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Preliminary Material; John B. McKee -- Preface; John B. McKee -- Chapter I Reader Victimizing Irony: Two Basic Techniques; John B. McKee -- Chapter II The Speaker as Ironist: Context Withholding in the Prologues of Tom Jones; John B. McKee -- Chapter III The Speaker as Victim: Context Withholding in Gulliver’s Travels; John B. McKee -- Chapter IV The Ironist as Explorer: Information and Context Withholding in Tristram Shandy; John B. McKee -- Chapter V Conclusions; John B. McKee -- Back Matter -- Appendix I A Short History of “Irony”; John B. McKee -- Appendix II Some Modern Approaches to Systematizing Irony; John B. McKee -- A Selected Bibliography; John B. McKee UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004650459 ER -