Overview
Examines the hybrid nature of humour and comedy in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Gosse, Wyndham Lewis, and Katherine Mansfield
Explores the complex nature between laughter and violence
Views comedy in relation to other literary modes, forms, genres, sub-genres and generic traits
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“In Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 we see the convoluted relationship between laughter, violence, war, horror and death. … This is a text for the academic to help him or her to interrogate and to investigate and a book for the interested party, who enjoys the subject. Both are well served. It is not too academic to put off the casual reader, yet it has enough gravitas to educate and intrigue.” (Jon Wilkins, Everybody's Reviewing, Everybody's Reviewing, everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com, March 23, 2019)
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Book Title: Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930
Authors: Jonathan Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11413-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11412-1Published: 22 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11413-8Published: 04 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature