EP.2 - Satire & Celebrity

Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire · Aug 4, 2019 · 19m

Jo and Adam are joined by Gráinne O’Hare (Newcastle University) and Katie Snow (University of Exeter) to talk about the relationship between satire and celebrity and consider the position of the woman as satirist and the subject of satire.

In this episode Adam and Jo Talk to Gráinne O’Hare and Katie Snow About:

Alexander Pope

Bluestockings

Breastfeeding

Celebrity

The Dunciad

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture

Frankie Boyle

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire

Instagram

Jonathan Swift

Lady Mary Montagu

Mock the Week

Motherhood

Prostitute Memoirs

Stewart Lee

Taylor Swift

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