Ridicule, religion and the politics of wit in Augustan England
By: by Roger D. Lund
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, [England]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781409437796; 9781409437802
Subjects: English literature; Literature and society; Ridicule in literature; History and criticism; Roman influences; Censorship; English wit and humor; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: defining the politics of wit; title: The bite of leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and philosophic drollery; title: Libertine wit and the Collier Stage controversy; title: The titans of wit; title: Shaftesbury and the gentility of wit; title: The trammels of Christian wit; title: The hermeneutics of censorship and the crime of wit.