Catalog of Wit: Bibliography
British Museum. “Object P_Cc-3-173.” Collection Online. Accessed March 8, 2025. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-3-173.
Bullard, Paddy. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Dahlman, Steven. Saturday Night Live Main Stage. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed April 25, 2025. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_Night_Live_main_stage_by_Steven_Dahlman.jpg.
Gay, John. The Beggar’s Opera. London: John Watts, 1728.
Gillray, James. The Plumb-Pudding in Danger;–or–State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper. 1805. Hand-colored etching. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/394045.
Great Britain. Licensing Act of 1737, 10 Geo. II c. 28. London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1737.
Great Britain. Royal Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1787.
Hogarth, William. An Election Entertainment. 1754–1755. Oil on canvas. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.
Hogarth, William. Marriage A-la-Mode: The Marriage Settlement. c. 1743–1745. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London.
Hogarth, William. Woman Swearing a Child to a Grave Citizen. c. 1729. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection Trust, London.
Martineau, Paris. “This Bernie Sanders Meme Is Everywhere—and Now, Anywhere.” Wired, January 21, 2021. https://www.wired.com/story/bernie-sanders-meme-street-view-site/.
Mutter, Reginald P.C and John Mullan. “The 18th Century in English Literature: Enlightenment, Satire, Novels.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed April 07, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature/The-18th-century.
"News." London Journal [1720], January 20, 1722. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection (accessed April 25, 2025). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/Z2001382630/BBCN?u=kennesaw_main&sid=bookmark-BBCN&xid=246d8d85.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
Voltaire. Candide, or Optimism. Translated by Robert M. Adams. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.