Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

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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.

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Year
2001
ISBN
9780230509474

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age
  3. Contents
  4. List of Plates
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Laughing Dutch
  7. 2 Humour in Word and Image
  8. 3 Aernout van Overbeke and His Jokes
  9. 4 Polarity and Inversion
  10. Conclusion: The Return of Laughter
  11. Notes
  12. Index