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Peer reviewedBrowne, Stephen H. – Argumentation and Advocacy, 1989
Proposes satire as a form of argumentative practice. Examines eighteenth-century satirical attacks upon London's ubiquitous debating societies (formed among tradesmen, craftsmen, professionals, and small businessmen to "improve" themselves) as evidence of satire's public role in which the ideological struggle between social classes was…
Descriptors: Debate, Eighteenth Century Literature, European History, Foreign Countries
