Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500–1800
- 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII
- 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue
- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England
- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church
- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England
- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly
- 7 ‘Laughing a Folly out of Countenance’: Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire
- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797–1805
- 9 ‘Was a laugh treason?’ Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500–1800
- 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII
- 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue
- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England
- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church
- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England
- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly
- 7 ‘Laughing a Folly out of Countenance’: Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire
- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797–1805
- 9 ‘Was a laugh treason?’ Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern BritainPolitical and Religious Culture, 1500-1820, pp. vi - viiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017