Cruelty and Laughter - Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Simon Dickie is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. This title uncovers a strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. It expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors. Zusammenfassung Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. This title uncovers a strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. It expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Dickie, Dickie Simon
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780226146188
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14618-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800