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1 online resource |
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Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 |
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Contents |
Introduction. Jane Austen and comedy / Erin M. Goss -- Austen, philosophy, and comic stylistics / Eric Lindstrom -- Jane Austen: comedy against happiness / David Sigler -- "Open-hearted": Persuasion and the cultivation of good humor / Sean Dempsey -- After the laughter: seeking perfect happiness in Emma / Soha Chung -- The comic visions of Emma Woodhouse / Timothy Erwin -- On Austen, comedy, and future possibility / Erin M. Goss -- Lost in the comedy: Austen's paternalistic men and the problem of accountability / Michael Kramp -- Sense, sensibility, sea monsters, and carnivalesque caricature / Misty Krueger |
| Summary |
Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen's books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second, Jane Austen's books are comedies, understandable both through the generic form that ends in marriage after the potential hilarity of romantic adversity and through a more general promise of wish fulfillment. In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Jane Austen and Comedy invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen's work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Electronic version record |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Humor
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 fast |
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Austen, Jane 1775-1817 gnd |
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Humor in literature.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Comic, The, in literature
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Humor in literature
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Humor Motiv
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Komik
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Humor
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goss, Erin, 1976- editor
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Bucknell University Press.
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| ISBN |
1684480817 |
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9781684480814 |
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