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Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain
by Ross Carroll.
Princeton, 255 pp., £28, April 2021,978 0 691 18255 1 Show More
by Ross Carroll.
Princeton, 255 pp., £28, April 2021,
“... and all such evil behaviour as we see to be in other[s].’ In The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burton made the same point from the victim’s perspective: ‘A bitter jest, a slander, a calumny, pierceth deeper than any loss, danger, bodily pain or injury whatsoever.’ In 17th-century England, people across society defended their honour against ... ”