Perhaps the fittest compliment one can offer De Bruyn's fine book is to describe it as Burkean, for De Bruyn lays before his readers a splendid prospect of Burke's arts of literary-political husbandry. The book works within a well-established tradition of literary scholarship ... the book renews Burke's work by making it more accessible to literary scholars and to teachers of survey courses tracing the curious genealogy of Augustan satire, from say, Pope to Byron.

Perhaps the fittest compliment one can offer De Bruyn's fine book is to describe it as Burkean, for De Bruyn lays before his readers a splendid prospect of Burke's arts of literary-political husbandry. The book works within a well-established tradition of literary scholarship ... the book renews Burke's work by making it more accessible to literary scholars and to teachers of survey courses tracing the curious genealogy of Augustan satire, from say, Pope to Byron.

Perhaps the fittest compliment one can offer De Bruyn's fine book is to describe it as Burkean, for De Bruyn lays before his readers a splendid prospect of Burke's arts of literary-political husbandry. The book works within a well-established tradition of literary scholarship ... the book renews Burke's work by making it more accessible to literary scholars and to teachers of survey courses tracing the curious genealogy of Augustan satire, from say, Pope to Byron.