Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age by Dekker, R.

Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333746745)

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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age by Dekker, R.

Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

$109.99
Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age by Dekker, R.

Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed and analyzed. Most jokes are crude and obscene, and they throw new light on attitudes towards sexuality, religion and other aspects of life.

Author: R. Dekker
ISBN-10: 0333746740
ISBN-13: 9780333746745
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2001
Pages: 187
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 237
By R. Dekker
By R. Dekker
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RUDOLF DEKKER is Reader in the Department of History and Art at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His publications include Holland in Beroering and, with Lotte van de Pol, The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe.

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