Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930
Jonathan Taylor
Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9783030114121
- ISBN-10
- 3030114120
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-02-22
- Pages
- 258
- Dimensions
- 210x148x