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• Scènes de la vie de jeunesse: Nouvelles (in French), by Henri Murger (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fleetwood : or, The new man of feeling (AMS Press, 1975), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The Greek cynics. (J. H. Furst, 1948), by Farrand Sayre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le idee pedagogiche nella filosofia cinica e specialmente in Antistene. Parte prima. (C. Clausen, 1904), by Luigi Andrea Rostagno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kynika und verwandtes von J. Geffcken ... (C. Winters universitätsbuchhandlung, 1909), by Johannes Geffcken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Realistic aphorisms and purple patches. (The Pioneer Press, 1922), by John Arthur Fallows (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, by C. S. Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Epicteti Manuale, Cebetis Thebani Tabula, Prodici Hercules, et Theophrasti Characteres ethici (E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1739), by Epictetus, active 5th century B.C. Prodicus, Theophrastus, Joseph Simpson, and of Thebes Cebes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Lambert Ennis (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• De cynicorum epistulis. (1896), by Wilhelm Capelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Cynicis, qui fuerunt aetate imperatorum Romanorum. (Chemnitz, 1896), by Alexander Caspari (page images at HathiTrust)

• [De Luciani Cynicorum et Christianorum insectatione]. . (G. Vogt, 1882), by Johannes Vahlen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Da ironia, do riso e da caricatura (com um ex-libris de Antonio Carneiro) ensaio esthetico. ([Porto], 1915), by Aarão de Lacerda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voltairian narrative devices as considered in the author's contes philosophiques. (Printed by George Banta publishing company, 1933), by Dorothy Madeleine McGhee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ironie im altfranzösischen nationalepos ... (M. DuMont Schauberg, 1914), by Hermann Spamer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ironie et poésie. (Saint-Félicien-en- Vivarais, Au Pigeonnier, 1923), by Charles Maurras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Reich der Ironie in Kulturgeschichlicher und ästhetischer Beziehung (C. Habel, 1879), by Max Schasler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om begrebet ironi, med stadigt hensyn til Socrates. (Gyldendal, 1906), by Søren Kierkegaard and J. L. Heiberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die romantische ironie (Schulthess & co., 1915), by Fritz Ernst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Om begrebet ironi : med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1906), by Søren Kierkegaard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The European Journal of Humour Research (2013-) (partial serial archives)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Helene P. Foley (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The word irony and its context, 1500-1755. (Duke University Press, 1961), by Norman Knox and Duke University Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die romantische Ironie. Abhandlung. (Schulthess, 1915), by Fritz Ernst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tvůrcové a epigoni--kritické studie (Aventinum, 1927), by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Impresionisté a ironikové--kritické studie ; dokumenty k psychologii literární generace let devadesátých (Aventinum, 1926), by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Romantische Ironie und romantische Komödie (Zollikofer, 1912), by Max Pulver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die tragische Ironie bei Shakespeare (s.n.], 1912), by Käthe Eckleben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Ironie als entwicklungsgeschichtliches Moment Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte der deutschen Romantik (E. Diederichs, 1909), by Fritz Brüggemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jane Austen; irony as defense and discovery. (University of California Press, 1974), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lucianic dialogue between Socrates in Hades and certain men of the present day (B. Blackwell, 1922), by William Francis Ross Hardie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Ironie im Spätwerk Goethes; "... diese sehr ernsten Scherze ..." Studien zum West-östlichen Divan, zu den Wanderjahren und zu Faust II. (E. Schmidt, 1927), by Ehrhard Bahr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tragic irony (1895), by Josephine E. Sendericker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)
• Des divers caractères du misanthrope : chez les écrivains anciens et modernes. (Auguste Durand, 1851), by Daniel Stauben (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society, Boston, August 27, 1880 (New York: Russell Bros., ca. 1880), ed. by Henry Morton (page images with commentary at scihistory.org)
• A Paradox on women, wherein it is sought to prove that they do not belong to the human species. (C. Carrington, 1898), by Valens Acidalius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weiberhaß und Weiberverachtung: Eine Erwiderung auf die in Dr. Otto Weiningers Buche »Geschlecht und Charakter« geäußerten Anschauungen über »Die Frau und ihre Frage« (in German), by Grete Meisel-Hess (Gutenberg ebook)
• A spirit moving in the vvomen-preachers: or, Certaine quæres, vented and put forth unto this affronted, brazen-faced, strange, new feminine brood.: Wherein they are proved to be rash, ignorant, ambitious, weake, vaine-glorious, prophane and proud, moved onely by the spirit of errour. (London : Printed for Henry Shepheard, at the Bible in Tower-street, and William Ley, at Pauls Chaine neere Doctors Commons, 1646) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pray be not angry: or, The womens new law:: With their several votes, orders, rules, and precepts, to the London-prentices, both in Cheap-side, Lumbard-street, Fish-street, Gracious-street, Broad-street, Fleet-street, Newgate-market, the Strand, Convent-garden; and all other places whatsoever, in and about the City of London, or parts adjacent. Likewise, their rare presidents and instructions, both to young-men and old, for the choosing of a good wife, or vertuous mistress; and how they shall know and distinguish an honest woman from an enticing and dissembling whore. Printed according to order; being pleasant for young-men, profitable for old-men, and hurtful to none. (London : Printed for George Horton, 1656), by G. Thorowgood (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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