Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, by Ross Carroll, Princeton, NJ, and Oxford, UK, Princeton University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £28.00(pb), ISBN 978-06-91-24177-7 [Book Review]

Intellectual History Review 34 (2):511-514 (2024)
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In contemporary thought, as in the long eighteenth century, the politics of ridicule is split between those who see it as fundamentally uncivil and those who advocate for its emancipatory potential...

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