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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	€ 22,50

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