Satire and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Ellen Pollak
Published 1985 · 90,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Satire and the Eighteenth-Century Novel to read?
Satire and the Eighteenth-Century Novel scores 54 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 64 out of 100
- Feminist and ideological criticism vocabulary, carefully deployed.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- Theoretical claims about genre and ideology grounded in close reading.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Rich with argument and evidence throughout.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- Direct polemical argument.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Analytical.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- Irony is a primary object of analysis; the critic's own register is sharply aware.
- Resolution withholding: 12 out of 100
- Arguments reach clear conclusions.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Organized by author and text within a unified ideological framework.
How Satire and the Eighteenth-Century Novel is regarded
Satire and the Eighteenth-Century Novel holds a literary regard score of 72 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.