The power of laughter and satire in early modern Britain : political and religious culture, 1500-1820 /

Table of Contents: “…Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue -- 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England -- 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church -- 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England -- 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Polly -- 7 'Laughing a Folly out of Countenance': Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire -- 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797-1805 -- 9 'Was a laugh treason?' …”
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