Cruelty and Laughter - Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century - Simon Dickie - Paperback Bog - The University of Chicago
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Description
Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy.
