I don't read that much fiction these days, but I happen to be reading a story by Steven Brust right now, and he definitely does this. Then again, Steve is deliberately aping older writers. This novel is partly a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's stuff ... which was itself satire. Brust's themes are things like class warfare, the breakup of a marriage leaving the protagonist devastated, and redemption for a character who was, a few novels ago, an unrepentant psychopath.