The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain : political and religious culture, 1500-1820 /

Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Knights, Mark, Morton, Adam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2017.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Congresses.
Satire > History and criticism > Congresses.
Laughter > Great Britain > History > Congresses.
Rire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Congrès.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Laughter
Satire
Great Britain
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500-1800
  • 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII
  • 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue
  • 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England
  • 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church
  • 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England
  • 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly
  • 7 'Laughing a Folly out of Countenance': Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire
  • 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797-1805
  • 9 'Was a laugh treason?' Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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