In this study, Simon Dickie uncovers a rich strain of cruelty coursing through the supposedly polite and sentimental culture of eighteenth-century Britain.Dickie delves into the forgotten comic literature of the eraan enormous but little-known archive of jestbooks, comic periodicals, farces, variety shows, and minor comic novels.The most striking thing about these materials is their sheer nastiness, for they amount to a seemingly bottomless repository of jokes about cripples, blind men, rape, and wife-beating; epigrams ...
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In this study, Simon Dickie uncovers a rich strain of cruelty coursing through the supposedly polite and sentimental culture of eighteenth-century Britain.Dickie delves into the forgotten comic literature of the eraan enormous but little-known archive of jestbooks, comic periodicals, farces, variety shows, and minor comic novels.The most striking thing about these materials is their sheer nastiness, for they amount to a seemingly bottomless repository of jokes about cripples, blind men, rape, and wife-beating; epigrams about scurvy; and one-act farces about hunchbacks in love.These ephemera remind us, with a jolt, of just how slowly ordinary suffering became worthy of sympathy in the modern age."
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New. Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Num Pages: 382 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592. 2014. Reprint. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
