Author: GATRELL, VIC
Title: City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
Description: NY, Walker. 2006, 1st. (ISBN: 0802716024). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Walker, 2006, first printing. Thick 8vo. xxiii+696pp. illustrated with numerous color plates. " City of Laughter chronicles the rise and fall of a great tradition of ridicule and of the satirical, humorous, and widely circulated prints that sustained it. Focusing not on the polished wit upon which polite society prided itself, but rather on malicious, sardonic and satirical humor?humor that was bawdy, knowing and ironic?Vic Gatrell explores what this tradition says about Georgian views of the world and about their own pretensions. Taking the reader into the clubs and taverns where laughter flowed most freely, Gatrell examines how Londoners laughed about sex, scandal, fashion, drink and similar pleasures of life.Combining words and images–including more than 300 original drawings by Cruikshank, Gillray, Rowlandson, and others?City of Laughter offers a brilliantly original panorama of the era, providing a ground-breaking reappraisal of a period of change and a unique account of the origins of our attitudes toward sex, celebrity and satire today." Near fine. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Keywords: England & Europe 0802716024


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