Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 - Jonathan Taylor - Books - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - 9783030114121 - February 22, 2019
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Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 1st ed. 2019 edition

Jonathan Taylor

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 1st ed. 2019 edition

It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point.


258 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; X, 258 p. 1 illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 22, 2019
ISBN13 9783030114121
Publishers Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages 258
Dimensions 478 g
Language German  

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