Juvenal and the satiric emotions

In his sixteen Satires, the Roman poet Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery, drawing on a diverse array of Greco-Roman treatments of the emotions. But as Keane shows, the satiric emotions are not found only in the author's rhetorical performances; they are also at the centre of the human farrago that the Satires purport to treat. As he paints human experience and conflict from many angles, Juvenal explores the dynamic operation of emotions in society.

Introduction. Generalizing about Juvenal ; Satire and affect ; Satiric emotions as subjects and tools ; Themes in Roman satire studies ; How to do things with feelings -- Anger games. The indignant performer ; The contexts of Juvenalian anger ; The rhetoric students at work ; Histories of anger ; Suppression, contestation ; compensation ; Anger between friends -- Monstrous misogyny and the end of anger. Bringing it all back home ; Farrago and Phantasia ; A look in the mirror ; Passing on the burden -- Change, decline, and the progress of satire. The Janus view ; Anger without eloquence ; Ante Ora Parentum ; Sermo and sirens -- Considering tranquility. Democritus on display ; Beyond laughter ; Democritus in Rome? ; Demolition and reinvention ; The Senecan model ; The satirist behind closed doors ; Outside-in satire ; Reclaiming a legacy -- The Praegrandis Senex. Rethinking the grand narrative ; The satiric Senex and the emotional plot ; Old men and Sermo ; Nestor Redivivus ; Not your father's Ira ; On reading the end, or "you and what army?" -- Conclusion.