The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain. Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 240480-182268-1283
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Boydell Press
- ISBN
- 9781783272037
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book grew out of a conference on laughter organised while I was on a temporary contract at the University of Warwick. It brings together historians, literary scholars, and political scientists to examine an under-studied aspect of early modern culture: laughter. In doing so it argues that satire and laughter need to be studied in non-canonical texts and in contexts that span political, religious and social history. The book argues that the conventional approach to laughter – based on relief theory, incongruity, and Hobbesian shame – are too narrow to fully appreciate the subject. The books is 120,000 words. My chapter is 13,000 words and I co-authored the introduction (which is also heavily based on primary research) of 10,000. That makes my written contribution 19%. I was the lead editor for much of the process from the conception of the volume to the preparation of the manuscript and index.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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