- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 362 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Cruelty and laughter (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Cruelty and laughter (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: The unsentimental Eighteenth Century, 1740-70 -- Jestbooks and the indifference to reform -- Nasty jokes, polite women -- How to be a wit -- Cripples, hunchbacks, and the limits of sympathy -- Epigrams and literary freaks -- Dancing cripples -- Everyday laughter: evidence -- Damaged lives: experience -- Body determinism -- Delights of privilege -- Laughing at the lower orders -- Caveats from social history -- High jinks and violent freedoms -- Lovelace at the haberdasher -- Joseph Andrews and the great laughter debate -- Narrative from a high horse -- Fielding's anatomy of laughter -- The problem with parsons -- Adams and the enemies of fun -- Rape jokes and the law -- Laughter and disbelief -- Functions of an assault -- Accusations, remedies, and local justice -- Humors of the Old Bailey -- In conclusion: the forgotten best sellers of early English fiction -- Ramble novels and slum realism -- Reading for the filler -- Unsentimental readers and literary history.
- LCCN
- 2011004069
- OCLC
- ssj0000535579
- Author
Dickie, Simon.
- Title
Cruelty and laughter [electronic resource] : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental Eighteenth Century / Simon Dickie.
- Imprint
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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