Price loading...

Cambridge University Press A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

Price data last checked 137 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description
Eighteenth-century literature is weirder than we realize. A Funny Thing invites readers to be taken by its oddities, its silliness, and its absurdities – both because reading this way is fun, and because this challenges colonialism's disciplinary epistemes of propriety that have consistently bound liberal selfhood to extractive capitalism. Focusing on three aesthetic modes largely unnamed in existing studies of the period's literature – the anamorphic, the ludic, and the orificial – this book offers fresh readings of work by Haywood, Walpole, Bentley, and Burney that point to unexpected legacies from the so-called Age of Reason. This book is for any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction, the period's queer sense of humour, and how writing and art of the time challenge colonial reality. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Product Specifications
Brand
Cambridge University Press
Format
hardcover
ASIN
1009486233
Category
Books > Subjects > LGBTQ+ Books
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
05 June 2025
Listed Since
20 December 2024

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
91% match

The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Cambridge University Press

£75.30 27 Feb 2026
Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire: Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context
91% match

Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire: Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

£44.99 07 Mar 2026
Ridiculous Critics: Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment
91% match

Ridiculous Critics: Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment

Bloomsbury Academic

£99.89 25 Feb 2026
The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction
90% match

The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Cambridge University Press

£78.58 22 Feb 2026
The Ways of Fiction: New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century
90% match

The Ways of Fiction: New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

£61.99 19 Feb 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
90% match

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Oxford University Press

£44.99 19 Apr 2026
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture
90% match

Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture

Routledge

£150.00 19 Dec 2025
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
90% match

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music

Cambridge University Press

£100.00 12 Jan 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
90% match

The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire

Oxford University Press

£109.86 22 Jan 2026
Humor in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide
90% match

Humor in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide

Greenwood

£56.35 07 Mar 2026
Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
90% match

Fictions of Friendship in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

Springer

£67.78 23 Feb 2026
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
90% match

The Cambridge Companion to World Literature

Cambridge University Press

£76.11 08 Mar 2026
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
90% match

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature

Cambridge University Press

£72.19 08 Mar 2026
Routledge - Heteronormativity in 18th-Century Literature
90% match

Routledge - Heteronormativity in 18th-Century Literature

Routledge

£136.27 18 Apr 2026
Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
90% match

Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Cambridge University Press

£73.39 26 Feb 2026
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
90% match

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

Cambridge University Press

£78.39 17 Mar 2026
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830
90% match

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830

Cambridge University Press

£74.38 25 Feb 2026
Jane Austen and Comedy (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)
90% match

Jane Austen and Comedy (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Rutgers University Press

£120.00 09 Mar 2026
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830: Hours of Folly? (British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century)
90% match

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830: Hours of Folly? (British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century)

Routledge

£136.27 02 Mar 2026
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)
90% match

Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)

MACMILLAN

£63.99 06 Mar 2026
An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel
90% match

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel

Red Globe Press

£70.00 08 Mar 2026
At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies)
90% match

At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies)

£113.50 11 Jan 2026
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century
90% match

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century

Cambridge University Press

£45.79 24 Feb 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to Satire (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
90% match

The Cambridge Introduction to Satire (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£81.55 08 Mar 2026