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- Title
Laughter, Ridicule, and Sympathetic Humor in the Early Nineteenth Century.
- Authors
WARD, MATTHEW
- Abstract
The article discusses the place ridicule, laughter, and sympathetic humor has in public discourse and daily lives in the early nineteenth century. Topics include the uneasy relation of laughter with sympathetic humor, the element of humor in the writings of writers like Thomas Carlyle and William Hazlitt, and the establishment of nonlinguistic modes of communication such as crying, swooning and sighing as performances of sympathy.
- Subjects
SYMPATHY -- Social aspects; HUMOR in literature; CARLYLE, Thomas, 1795-1881; CRYING; RIDICULE
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2017, Vol 57, Issue 4, p725
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2017.0032