Laughter, literature, violence, 1840-1930. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jonathan Taylor.
• Authors: Taylor, Jonathan, 1973-
• 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'.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.7; Laughter in literature; Violence in literature; Literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030114138; 3030114139
• Related ISBNs: 9783030114121
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2019)
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