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Lädt ... City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century Londonvon Vic Gatrell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A serious academic work on the sexual attitudes of London from the late 18th to early 19th centuries, using cartoons from the likes of Rowlandson and Gillray as a basis. Well worth reading, though not for the easily shocked. The title of the Introduction gives an idea of what fare is on offer later - 'Lady Worsley's Bottom'. A fascinating insight into a lost world. A scholarly book about a relatively lost chapter of English history. I have been reading the book for 3 months...just a little at a time as the subject matter can be dense and at times, unpleasant. However, the picture it paints of the 18th century London art , social and political scenes can be highly illuminating and uproariously funny or digustingly debauched and dissipated. The print reproductions are excellent and the content is well-organized and reserched, although occasionally it reads like a PH.D thesis. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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.
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.
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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There is no doubt Catrell is the master of the subject; the book is authoritative, indeed exhaustive. For, sadly, the light-hearted nature of his subject matter has failed to rub off on him and, for all its intrinsic interest, this is far from being a light read. To be literal, the book itself (printed throughout on glazed paper) is heavy enough to make your arms hurt; don't try it last thing at night unless you fancy combining your bedtime reading with a little weight-lifting.
I feel mean criticising this book on this account; clearly two other reviewers loved every word. And don't get me wrong, the book is full of stuff. I just wish the author's style had been lighter, the print less microscopic, and a good editor had persuaded him to cut the word-count drastically. On the plus side, that heavy paper means the illustrations are numerous, good quality and inset in the text; something which goes quite a way to counterbalance my other quibbles. ( )