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english wit and humor history and criticism

Language of Humour

By Alison Ross

Comedy and Distinction

By Sam Friedman

New perspectives on women and comedy

By Regina Barreca

Defining John Bull

By Tamara L. Hunt

Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

By Roger D. Lund

Laughter in the air

By Barry Took

Broadsides

By James Davey,Richard Johns

Conceptual Blending Theory of Humour

By Joanna Jablonska-Hood

Cruelty and laughter

By Simon Dickie

Lawrence and comedy

By John Worthen

Arguments of Augustan Wit

By John Sitter

That's bollocks!

By Albert Jack

The Irish comic tradition

By Vivian Mercier

A Great, Silly Grin

By Humphrey Carpenter

That was satire that was

By Humphrey Carpenter

'A womans answer is neuer to seke'

By Ian Munroe

Lyric wonder

By James Biester

Comic transactions

By James F. English

Veins of Humor

By Harry Levin

English Humour for Beginners

By George Mikes

Metaphysical wit

By A. J. Smith

Trading twelves

By Ralph Ellison

Poetry and humour from Cowper to Clough

By Storey, Mark

The amiable humorist

By Stuart M. Tave