Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930
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| Summary: | X, 258 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11413-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Preface: Allegories of Laughter. I. Comedy and Hybridity. II. Laughter and Annihilation
- 2. His ‘Last Jest’: On Laughter, Edgar Allan Poe and ‘Hop-Frog’. I. Comedy and Horror. II. Laughter and Democracy. III. Laughter and Leap-Frog
- 3. ‘Unseemly Levity’: On Memoirs, Humour and Edmund Gosse. I. Humour and Genre. II. Humour and Emotion. III. Humour and Text. IV. Humour and Beyond
- 4. ‘Perfect Laughter’: On War, Wyndham Lewis and The Wild Body. I. Laughter and Dualism. II. Laughter, Dualism and Bodies. III. Laughter, Dualism, Bodies and Anarchism
- 5. Epilogue: ‘Derisive Laughter’: On Superiority, Katherine Mansfield and ‘Miss Brill’.