Simon Dickie

• Early-Modern Comic Literature
• Henry Fielding
• Religion and Blasphemy, 1660-1800

Office Hours

Wednesdays 4:45pm-5:45pm

Publications

Book

Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011, paperback 2014).
*Winner of the 2012 Snow Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies.

Articles 

"Picaresque and Rogue Fiction," in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 1, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford University Press, 2017). 

“Humour,” in Samuel Richardson in Context, ed. Peter Sabor and Betty A. Schellenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

"Deformity Poems and Other Nasties," Eighteenth-Century Life 41.1 (2017)

"Novels of the 1750s," in The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. J.A. Downie (Oxford University Press, 2016). 

"Tobias Smollett and the Ramble Novel," in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol. 2, ed. Karen O'Brien and Peter Garside (Oxford University Press, 2015).

"Fielding's Rape Jokes," Review of English Studies 61.251 (2010).

"Amelia, Sex, and Fielding's Woman Question," in Henry Fielding (1707-1754), ed. Claude Rawson (University of Delaware Press, 2008).

"Joseph Andrews and the Great Laughter Debate," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 34 (2005).

"Hilarity and Pitilessness in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: English Jestbook Humor," Eighteenth-Century
Studies 37.1 (2003).

Current Research

Sporting with Sacred Things: Church, Bible, and Blasphemy in the Eighteenth Century