A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. | The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction by David McNeil, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters