Description: Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.
Brief description: ANDREW MCRAE is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Exeter.
Review Quotes: [T]he essays examine an unexpected and fresh set of texts. . . . One hopes that this lively and fruitful volume encourages more scholarship on these important topics.-- "EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION"