The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain ? Political and Religious Culture, 1500?1820
Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell and Brewer
- Date of Publication 16 June 2017
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781783272037
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 241x162x22 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 colour, 8 b/w illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.
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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.
[T]he essays examine an unexpected and fresh set of texts. . . . One hopes that this lively and fruitful volume encourages more scholarship on these important topics. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION
A stimulating collection. HISTORY
This delightful volume articulates a significant facet of satire that can be read across the early modern period: that it created a space for criticism. CERCLES
The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain ? Political and Religious Culture, 1500?1820: Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820
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