At Zero Point

Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England

By: Rose A. Zimbardo

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Hardcover | 5 March 1998

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At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of "zero point"-the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to construct itself. Zimbardo demonstrates that the Restoration marked both the collapse of the Renaissance order and the birth of modernism (with its new conceptions of self, nation, gender, language, logic, subjectivity, and reality). Using satire as the site for her investigation, Zimbardo examines works by Rochester, Oldham, Wycherley, and the early Swift for examples of Restoration deconstructive satire that, she argues, measure the collapse of Renaissance epistemology. Constructive satire, as exemplified in works by Dryden, has at its discursive center the "I" from which all order arises to be projected to the external world. No other book treats Restoration culture or satire in this way.

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"An important and provocative book, with rewarding turns to authorship, gender, and nationalism." -- Studies in English Literature

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
"From Words to Experimental Philosophy": Language and Logic at Restoration Zero Point	p. 22
The Semiotics of Restoration Deconstructive Satire	p. 41
No "I" and No "Eye"	p. 59
"Author," "Speaker," "Character" in Restoration Deconstructive Satire	p. 59
Not Him: Oldham's "Aude aliquid. Ode"	p. 69
Not Them: Wycherley's The Plain Dealer	p. 80
No-One, No-Place, No-Thing: Swift's Tale of a Tub	p. 90
Genders, Sexualities, and Discourse at Restoration Zero Point	p. 101
The Discursively Central "I" and the Telescope of Discourse	p. 132
"The Proper Study of Mankind is M(E)"	p. 132
Ordered and Ordering: The New Theory of Satire	p. 141
Satiric Discourse and the Sacred Nation	p. 149
The "Other" End of the Telescope	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 170
Notes	p. 172
Index	p. 190
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