… the Neopicaresque (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), p. 113-139. 7 . See Ronald Paulson, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). 8 . Pierce Egan, Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes …
… was a way of introducing uncertainty into the predictable routine of common room life, providing entertainment and laughter, and wine for more partakers than the winners, if the bets had been laid in a decent number of bottles of port, …
… of the Age, Destructive to Soul and Body (London: 1740). 8 . Kate Davison, ‘Occasional Politeness and Gentlemen’s Laughter in Eighteenth-Century England‘, Historical Journal (vol. 57, 201), p. 921-945. When did politeness lose its hold …
… repartee, and light-hearted pleasantries do not strike the same note in every climate… What might cause open-hearted laughter in France might be jeered in London or in Vienna. In all places, a jest is judged on nothing at all, and this …
… boxes and names of that year’s occupants. 9 . For more on women’s reactions in the theatre, see A. Rousseau, ‘Offstage Laughter: Restoration Comedies and the Female Audience’, Revue de la Société d’Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et …
… sunder, Anger and Hatred ensures all the Secrets on either side [...] are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World’. 12 Eighteenth-century conceptions of sociability, which regarded female relationships as …