Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century - Simon Dickie - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226142548 - April 14, 2014
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Simon Dickie
Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

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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.

382 pages, 15 halftones

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 14, 2014
ISBN13 9780226142548
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 382
Dimensions 156 × 230 × 23 mm   ·   592 g

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