Uncivil Mirth : : Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain / / Ross Carroll.
How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter one: A Polite Diogenes? Ridicule in Shaftesbury’s Politics of Toleration
- Chapter two: Sociability, Censorship and the Limits of Ridicule from Shaftesbury to Hutcheson
- Chapter three: Against 'Dissolute mirth' Hume's Scepticism about ridicule
- Chapter four: Scoffing at Scepticism. Ridicule and common sense
- Chapter five: 'Too solemn for laughter'? Scottish abolitionists and the mock apology for slavery
- Chapter six: An education in Contempt. Ridicule in Wollstonecraft's politics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index