A study of political humour in British literature in the 1790s

British responses to the French Revolution are characterised by humorous expression in the literature of the 1790s. Yet political humour is often not readily harnessed to an immediate political agenda. ‘Political humour’ as an idea appears to be a contradiction and elicits a contradictory set of epi...

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Main Author: Chen, Chi-Fang
Published: University of Warwick 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.723128