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Author:   Vivienne Westbrook (The University of Western Australia) ,  Shun-liang Chao (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138314641

ISBN 10:   1138314641
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   10 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword: The Intersection of Humour Studies and Cultural History Jessica Milner Davis Introduction: Reading Humorously: Towards New Perspectives Shun-liang Chao and Vivienne Westbrook 1. Literary Humour in English: A Short Cultural History Robert S. White 2. Unbidden to the Banquet: Humour in the Classical Period R. Drew Griffith 3. Understatement and Incongruity: Humour in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England Jonathan Wilcox 4. Laughter and Humour in Middle English Texts Anne M. Scott 5. Shakespeare’s Reformation Humour Vivienne Westbrook 6. ""To Make Fools Laugh, and Women Blush, and Wise Men Ashamed"": Humour in the English Restoration Lyndsey Bakewell and Sara Read 7. Beyond Slapstick: Humour, Physicality, and Empathic Performance in G. E. Lessing’s Comedies Pascale LaFountain 8. Emerson’s Sad Clown: American Transcendentalism and the Dilemma of the Humourist John Michael Corrigan 9. The Congruity of Incongruity: Victorian Intermedial Humour Mou-Lan Wong 10. ""A Tomato Is Also a Child’s Balloon"": Surrealist Humour as a Moral Attitude Shun-liang Chao Conclusion John Morreall"

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""Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives refreshes me at a time when humour has become rancid. Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao return us to a lost world where humour could be good natured.” -Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, Yale University, USA

Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives refreshes me at a time when humour has become rancid. Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao return us to a lost world where humour could be good natured. -Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, Yale University, USA

Author Information

Vivienne Westbrook is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia and a member of St. John’s College, Cambridge. She has received numerous international endorsements for her work in cultural history, including a Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Shun-liang Chao is Associate Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (Routledge, 2010), awarded an Honourable Mention in 2013 for the Anna Balakian Prize of the International Comparative Literature Association.

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