{"product_id":"mirth-making-the-rhetorical-discourse-on-jesting-in-early-modern-england","title":"Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChris Holcomb\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781570033971\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of South Carolina Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eMIRTH MAKING examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which writers of rhetoric and courtesy manuals during the English Renaissance counseled their readers on the powers and hazards of jesting. Shedding light on a subject largely neglected by contemporary scholars, Holcomb's pathbreaking study demonstrates how such humor-related advice points to and participates in broader cultural phenomena - most notably the era's increase in social and geographic mobility and the contest between authority and subversion. Describing the English Renaissance as a brief but crucial phase in the history of jesting discourse, Holcomb differentiates humor-related counsel of the period from that of classical and medieval sources by its focus on communication between people of different stations. Holcomb shows that, in a changing society, handbook writers presented jesting as a socially conservative force and suggests that with a well-placed jest or quip, an orator might enhance his status and persuasive power or shame and ridicule those beneath him. Holcomb also recognizes, however, that rhetoricians confronted significant challenges as they sought to capture, explain, and teach a strategy b\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England | Chris Holcomb | Hardcover | 9781570033971 | Used: Very Good | European History 1562355","offer_id":48484935336088,"sku":"1562355","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61p-QQ4c-cL.jpg?v=1773436201","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mirth-making-the-rhetorical-discourse-on-jesting-in-early-modern-england","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}