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Cruelty and laughter : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century
- Title
- Cruelty and laughter : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century / Simon Dickie.
- Author
- Dickie, Simon.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 362 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2275
- ISBN
- 9780226146188 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0226146189 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011004069
- OCLC
- 708357599
- Author
- Dickie, Simon.
- Title
- Cruelty and laughter : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century / Simon Dickie.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2275