Cruelty and Laughter

Cruelty and Laughter
Author: Simon Dickie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 022614254X

A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain, this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals, variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.