Cruelty and Laughter

Name: Cruelty and Laughter
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226142548
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Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Автор: Simon Dickie

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Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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A wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Bri...

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Автор

Simon Dickie

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

382

EAN

9780226142548

ISBN

022614254X

Enbook ID

04543909

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

592

Размери

156 x 230 x 23

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A wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, Cruelty and Laughter uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Delving into an enormous archive of comic novels, jestbooks, farces, variety shows, and cartoons, Simon Dickie finds a vast repository of jokes about cripples, rape, and wife-beating alongside epigrams about syphilis and one-act comedies about hunchbacks in love. In the process, he expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors, including Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Jane Austen, and Henry Fielding. Cruelty and Laughter is an engaging, far-reaching study of the other side of culture in eighteenth-century Britain.

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