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This chapter continues the theme of cockneyism, but now engaging further with the writings of Charles Lamb as the greatest exponent of irreverent and volatile jokes and puns, as a facet of cockney sociability, intended to puncture bourgeois complacency.
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Newbon, P. (2019). Lamb and the Age of Cant: Jokes, Puns and Nonsense. In: The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40814-3_7
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