Cruelty and laughter : forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental Eighteenth Century /
Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental-the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlighte...
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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