The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain: political and religious culture, 1500-1820
This interdisciplinary collection considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the traditional liter...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
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| Pubblicazione: |
Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2017
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| In: | Anno: 2017 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Großbritannien
/ Cultura
/ Satira
/ Riso <motivo>
/ Polemica
/ Storia 1500-1820
B Inglese / Letteratura / Riso <motivo> (Motivo) / Satira / Storia 1500-1820 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Satire ; History and criticism ; Congresses
B Raccolta di saggi B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Congresses B English literature B Laughter ; Great Britain ; History ; Congresses B Laughter B Laughter (Great Britain) History Congresses B English literature ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; History and criticism ; Congresses B Satira History and criticism Congresses B Satira |
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| Edizione parallela: | Non elettronico
Print version: 9781783272037 |
| Riepilogo: | This interdisciplinary collection considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the traditional literary canon to investigate printed material of all kinds, both textual and visual, it considers satire as a mode or attitude rather than a literary genre and is distinctive in its combination of broad historial range and thick description of individual instances. Within an over-arching investigation of the dual role of laughter and satire as a defence of communal values and as a challenge to political, religious and social constructions of authority, the individual chapters by leading scholars provide richly contextualised studies of the uses of laughter and satire in various settings - religious, political, theatrical and literary. Drawing on some unfamiliar and intriguing source material and on recent work on the history of the emotions, the contributors consider not just the texts themselves but their effect on their audiences, and chart both the changing use of humour and satire across the whole early modern period and, importantly, the less often noticed strands of continuity, for instance in the persistence of religious tropes throughout the period. MARK KNIGHTS is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. ADAM MORTON is Lecturer in the History of Britain at the University of Newcastle. Contributors: ANDREW BENJAMIN BRICKER, MARK KNIGHTS, FIONA MCCALL, ANDREW MCRAE, ADAM MORTON, SOPHIE MURRAY, ROBERT PHIDDIAN, MARK PHILP, CATHY SHRANK |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Sep 2018) |
| ISBN: | 1787440818 |