Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century 0226146189, 9780226146188

Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century 9780226146201

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Sim

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On the Comic and Laughter 9781442697812

The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study

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Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture 0826485642, 9780826485649

This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and

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Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture 9781474211376, 9780826485656

This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and

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Literature and Medicine: Volume 1: The Eighteenth Century 9781108420860, 1108420869

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth centu

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Politics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century 0874714052, 0874714001

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Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature 9781136182372, 9780415640039

This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, co

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Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies 9780748634569

'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all

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Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment : Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political 9781611486971, 9781611486964

Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment examines the role of the novelists and historians of the eighteenth century in dev

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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

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