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Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopte

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which h

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

The Leiden Circle pioneered the systematic exclusion of theologically grounded argument in areas of thought from the natural sciences to international relations