A Cultural history of humour
Subtitle: from antiquity to the present day
By: edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
Contributors: Bremmer, Jan N.; Roodenburg, Herman.
Publisher: Polity Press; Blackwell; Polity
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Humor and history / Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg; title: Jokes, jokers and jokebooks in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremer; title: Cicero, Plautus and Roman laughter / Fritz Graf; title: Laughter in the Middle Ages / Jacques le Goff; title: Bakhtin and his theory of carnival / Aaron Gurevich; title: Frontiers of the comic in early modern Italy, c. 1350-1750 / Peter Burke; title: The comic and the Counter-Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands / Johan Verberckmoes; title: Prose jest-books mainly in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in England / Derek Brewer; title: To converse agreeably, civility and the telling of jokes in the seventeenth-century Holland / Herman Roodenburg; title: How was Jan Steen funny? / Mariët Westermann; title: Parliamentary hilarity inside the French Constitutional Assembly (1789-91) / Antoine de Baecque; title: Humour and the public sphere in nineteenth-century Germany / Mary Lee Townsend; title: Humour, laughter and the field, reflections from anthropology / Henk Driessen.