Cruelty And Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature And The Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.

• | Author: Simon Dickie
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 14, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 382 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 022614254X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226142548