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Cruelty and laughter : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental Eighteenth Century /

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental-the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlighte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickie, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.