Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century by Simon Dickie Details
The fascinating and shocking mystery of nineteenth-century comic literature in Britain, Krusli and Logger, reveals a rich vein of cruel humor under the surface of Enlightenment cajoling that forces us…
The fascinating and shocking mystery of nineteenth-century comic literature in Britain, Krusli and Logger, reveals a rich vein of cruel humor under the surface of Enlightenment cajoling that forces us to realize how slow normal human suffering has become. Simon Dickey discovers in a huge archive of comic novels, festival books, plays, variety shows, and animations that he finds a huge reservoir of jokes about the two-seater, rape, wife beatings along with the myths about syphilis, and the one-act comedy about the ropes.
In this process, he expanded our understanding of many of the major authors of the century, including Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollet, Jane Austen, and Henry Fielding. Cruelty and laughter is a far-reaching, attractive study of the other side of British culture in the eighteenth century..
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