ABSTRACT
The general course of development of the genre in England followed the lines of the similar French movement, but with characteristically different emphasis. In France the movement —preluded by the pseudo-oriental satire, The Turkish Spy — was initiated by highly imaginative oriental translations contemporaneous with the fairy tales of Perrault. Satire in France followed two lines of development: the social line inaugurated by Marana, and the literary or parodie, — a natural reaction from the extravagances of the imaginative tales. English satire in oriental guise was chiefly social, occasionally political, rarely parodie. The emphasis which in France was thrown upon satire fell in England upon philosophy and morals. Criticism may consider a work of art in the light of the absolute standard, — the ideal, — and may also consider it in relation to the evolution of literary types or tendencies.
