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Title: Jane Austen and Comedy
Condition: New
EAN: 9781684480784
ISBN: 9781684480784
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 26/04/2019
Description: 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.  

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 493g
Contributor: Erin Goss (Edited by), Eric Lindstrom (Contributions by), David Sigler (Contributions by), Sean Dempsey (Contributions by), Soha Chung (Contributions by), Timothy Erwin (Contributions by), Erin M. Goss (Contributions by), Michael Kramp (Contributions by), Misty Krueger (Contributions by)
Author: Erin Goss
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
ISBN-10: 1684480787
Item Width: 20mm
Release Year: 2019

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