Laughter [ Communication ]
… 27. Notwithstanding such expressions of contempt, impolite laughter was not necessarily a threat to sociability. Jesting literature and caricature alone testify to the period’s relish for humour that was distinctly unrefined, with sexual and … emphasising the collective enjoyment the book offered: 11 . Simon Dickie, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012); Vic Gatrell, City of … Institute of Philosophy Supplement (vol. 88, 2020), p. 143-169. Dickie, Simon Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Gatrell, Vic, City of …
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