Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
Contents |
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500-1800 -- 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII -- 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue -- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England -- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church -- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England -- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly -- 7 'Laughing a Folly out of Countenance': Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797-1805 -- 9 'Was a laugh treason?' Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Satire -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Laughter -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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Laughter
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Satire
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Knights, Mark
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Morton, Adam
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ISBN |
9781787440814 |
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1787440818 |
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