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100 1  Gatrell, Vic,|d1941-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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245 10 City of laughter :|bsex and satire in eighteenth-century 
       London /|cVic Gatrell. 
250    1st U.S. ed. 
264  1 New York :|bWalker & Co.,|c2007. 
264  4 |c©2006 
300    xxiii, 696 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 668-669) and 
       indexes. 
505 0  The sense of place -- London and the pleasure principle --
       'The west or worst end' -- Covent garden and the middling 
       sorts -- Crossing the boundaries -- How they laughed -- 
       Laughing politely -- Bums, farts and other transgressions 
       -- Image magic -- Seeing the jokes -- Gillray's 
       dreamscapes -- The sexes -- The tree of life -- Philosophy
       and raking -- What could women bear? -- The libertine's 
       last fling -- The enemies of laughter -- Taming the muse: 
       the long view -- The age of cant -- radical satire and the
       censors -- The silencing -- Happiness, cant and the 
       beggars -- Epilogue: Francis Place and 'improvement.' 
520    A sumptuously illustrated and authoritative history of the
       sexually liberated, salacious, and high satirical world of
       pre-Victorian London. Between 1779 and 1830. London was 
       the worldʼs largest and richest city, the center of hectic
       social ferment and spectacular sexual liberation. These 
       singular conditions prompted revolutionary modes of 
       thought, novel sensibilities, and constant debate about 
       the relations between men and women. Such an atmosphere 
       also stimulated outrageous behavior, from James Boswellʼs 
       copulating on Westminster Bridge to the Prince Regentʼs 
       attempt to seduce a woman by pleasing, sobbing, and 
       stabbing himself with a penknife. And nowhere was Londonʼs
       lewdness and iconoclasm more vividly represented than its 
       satire. 
520    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 the 
       Georgianʼs 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 
       groundbreaking reappraisal of a period of change and a 
       unique account of the origins of our attitudes toward sex,
       celebrity, and satire today. 
520    Includes information on cruelty to animals as sport, 
       importance of appearances, beggars, William Blake, breasts,
       Lord George Byron, cant, caricatures, clothing of women, 
       gentlemenʼs clubs, crime, Charles Dickens, drinking, 
       drinking clubs, elections, erotica, flagellation, France 
       and French, gambling, humour (humor), Samuel Johnson, 
       journal, periodicals and newspapers, laughter, lower class
       people, men, middling sorts, military life, music, nudity,
       Thomas Paine, phallic obsession, William Pitt, poets and 
       poetry, poor, printshops, prostitutes, pugilism, Christian
       religion, romanticism, scatological humour and behaviour, 
       sexual activity, Percy B. Shelley, symbols, upper class 
       people, women, women and erotica, etc. 
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