Satire: an overview -- Elements of satire: Satire as a form of humor / Gilbert Highet -- Role of irony in satire / Alvin B. Kernan -- Invective in satire - David Worcester -- Religion as a target of satire / Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom -- Satire and politics / Leonard Feinberg -- Treatment of women in satire / Matthew Hodgart -- Classic satire: Narrow scope of Juvenal's The Sixteen Satires / Peter Green -- Jonathan Swift's satire of travel epics in Gulliver's Travels / Michael Seidel -- Voltaire's Candide debunks the romanticized world / George R. Havens -- Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is a satire of sentimental novels / Amy Elizabeth Smith -- Influences of Roman satire in Byron's Don Juan / Fredrick L. Beaty -- Mark Twain as one of America's great satirists / Ernest Jackson Hall -- Modern satire: Sinclair Lewis's satires of middle America / C. Hugh Holman -- Aldous Huxley's Brave New World as an anti-utopian satire / Stephen Jay Greenblatt -- Political satire of George Orwell's Animal Farm / Jeffrey Meyers -- Responding to satire: Satire causes feelings of uneasiness / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Defense of satirists / Robert C. Elliott -- Future of satire / Matthew Hodgart -- Satire is no longer relevant / Lewis H. Lapham.