71
The Rambler, No. 2 (March 24th 1749/50).
72
A simple but effective distinction was provided by P. E. Russell in «Don Quixote as a Funny Book», Modern Language Review 64 (1969), 312-26. Russell suggests that modern readers have largely lost the ability of their 17th- and 18th-century counterparts to appreciate the funniness of the novel. He ascribes this change in attitude to the 19th- and 20th-century reader's «ability (and desire) to identify with the knight...» (p. 323).
73
Kermode, p. 114.
74
Iser, p. 21.
75
Iser, pp. 13-14.
76
See Stuart M. Tave, The Amiable Humourist (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1960).
77
Alexander Pope, Correspondence ed. George Sherburn, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), IV, 208.
78
Corbyn Morris, An Essay Toward Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire and Ridicule (1744).
79
Sarah Fielding, The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754) III, 120.
80
Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality: or the History of Henry Earl of Moreland, 5 vols. (1764-70), I, 153-4.