A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day

Jan Bremmer (Editor), Herman Roodenburg (Editor)

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1880-7

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280 pages

July 1997, Polity

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"[There are] plenty of fascinating nuggets in this book." The Sunday Telegraph

"This is an unusual and stimulating book, packed with valuable information on a subject too often considered trivial and nonscholarly." Sixteenth Century Journal

"Temptingly interesting ... worth indulging in." The Times Higher Education Supplement

"Bremmer and Roodenburg have created a valuable work in the comparative sociology of humour ... excellent research bibliography ... interesting and scholarly work of value to the sociologists." British Journal of Sociology

"Opens up a fascinating subject." Journal of Social History