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Cruelty & Laughter. Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Door Simon Dickie

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#279737
Titel
Cruelty & Laughter. Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
Auteur
Dickie, Simon
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Chicago/London,
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
0226146189
ISBN13
9780226146188
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Ills., orig. Boards.
Samenvatting

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie overturns these notions in Cruelty and Laughter , a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the era. Beneath the veneer of civilization, Dickie uncovers a rich strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Dickie delves into an enormous archive of jestbooks, comic periodicals, farces, variety shows, and minor comic novels that amount to a bottomless repository of jokes about cripples, blind men, rape, and wife-beating. He also discovers epigrams about scurvy and one-act farces about hunchbacks in love and reveals that all of these exposed the lim
... (Lees verder)its of compassion of the period. Everyone - rich and poor, women as well as men - laughed along. In the process, he expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors, including Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Tobias Smollett, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen. Cruelty and Laughter is an engaging, far-reaching study of the other side of culture in eighteenth-century Britain.
Pagina's
362
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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