The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820

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The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain

Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820

Edited by: Mark Knights and Adam Morton
With contributions by: Sophie Murray , Cathy Shrank , Andrew McRae , Fiona McCall , Adam Morton , Robert Phiddian , Andrew Bricker , Mark Philp and Mark Knights

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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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.

Author / Editor information

Morton Adam :

ADAM MORTON is Senior Lecturer in British History, Newcastle University.McRae Andrew :

ANDREW MCRAE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter.Morton Adam :

ADAM MORTON is Senior Lecturer in British History, Newcastle University.

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History Regional and National History Europe General European History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500–1800 Mark Knights and Adam Morton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII Sophie Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue Cathy Shrank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England Andrew McRae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church Fiona McCall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England Adam Morton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera and Polly Robert Phiddian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7 ‘Laughing a Folly out of Countenance’: Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire Andrew Benjamin Bricker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797–1805 Mark Philp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
9 ‘Was a laugh treason?’ Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain Mark Knights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

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eBook published on:

June 16, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9781787440814

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Boydell Press

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262

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8 colour, 8 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787440814

eBook ISBN: 9781787440814

Keywords for this book

Laughter; Satire; Early Modern Britain; Political Culture; Religious Culture; Humor; Social Commentary; Cultural Influence; Political Satire; History

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Professional and scholarly;

The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain

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