A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Kraft, Eric Weitz, Andrew McConnell Stott.
• Editors: Kraft, Elizabeth; Weitz, Eric; Stott, Andrew McConnell
• Contents: List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsEditor's AcknowledgmentsSeries PrefaceIntroduction, Elizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia, USA)1. Form, Brian Corman (University of Toronto, Canada)2. Theory, Jean I. Marsden (University of Connecticut, USA)3. Praxis: The Practice of Comedy in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Laura J. Rosenthal (University of Maryland, USA)4. Identities: Deception, Discovery, and the Paradox of the Dark Lantern, Heather Ladd (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)5. The Body: Performing Comic Eighteenth-Century Embodiment, Misty G. Anderson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)6. Politics and Power, Aparna Gollapudi (Colorado State University, USA)7. Laughter: Enlightenment Philosophies of Laughter, from Superiority Theory to Incongruity Theory, Andrew Benjamin Bricker (Ghent University, Belgium)8. Ethics, Melvyn New (University of Florida, USA)Notes ReferencesIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Performing arts: comedy; Reference works; Social & cultural history; History -- Reference; History -- Modern -- 18th Century; Performing Arts -- Comedy; Literary Criticism -- Humor; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350187740; 1350187747
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