ABSTRACT
This chapter points the cultural politics of the bluestocking culture of the writing, thinking, reading woman, and to the politics of writing such women into satirical verse. It sees the generic convergence of satire and sexism in Byron's work as drawing upon satirical models from antiquity, while existing in dialogue with a rich tradition of bluestocking satires by his contemporaries. Both Claude Fuess and Mary Clearman have suggested Juvenal as a model for Byron's early satirical work, particularly English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, but neither suggests the possible impact of Byron's reading of Juvenal on his later work. Felicity Nussbaum is an American philosopher she identifies the antifeminist satiric tradition emerging from the earliest extant texts of antiquity from Hesiod, Horace, Ovid and Juvenal. Nussbaum sees the years 1660 to 1750 as an especially intense period of misogynistic treatment of female intellectuals.
