Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930

by Jonathan Taylor

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030114120
• ISBN13: 9783030114121
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"