Simon Dickie: 1 book
Cruelty and Laughter
Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
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 Enlightenment...
