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Cruelty and laughter: forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental Eighteenth Century

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

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University of Chicago Press
0226146200 / 9780226146201
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
827.509
04/10/2011
English
335 pages
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