Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic

by Angus Fletcher and Angus Fletcher

The forgotten history of comedy's contribution to world democracy.

For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two centuries, this pragmatic approach to extending the franchise has gradually been displaced by more idealistic democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419343
• ISBN13: 9781421419343
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"