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Placing Fielding, the greatest humourist of his time, back amongst his contemporaries and responding to the comedy of his writing as his first readers would have done is a masterly stroke in this scholarly, original and highly readable book. (Literary Review) A brilliant and beautifully written book, Cruelty and Laughter introduces its readers to a world of violent mayhem, both rhetorical and real.... Such is the transformative experience of reading this book that I, for one, will never look at the mid-eighteenth century again in quite the same way. (H-Net Reviews) Dickie mounts a compelling case against what he calls 'the politeness-sensibility paradigm,' by resurrecting a jeering counter-discourse that reveled in human suffering and physical affliction. (London Review of Books)

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Simon Dickie is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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