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Title The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain : political and religious culture, 1500-1820 / edited by Mark Knights and Adam Morton
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2017

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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
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Satire -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Laughter -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
Laughter
Satire
Great Britain
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Knights, Mark
Morton, Adam
ISBN 9781787440814
1787440818