Jane Austen and Comedy /

Jane Austen and Comedy / / ed. by Erin Goss.

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 aft...

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MitwirkendeR:
Chung, Soha,
Dempsey, Sean,
Erwin, Timothy,
Goss, Erin,
Kramp, Michael,
Krueger, Misty,
Lindstrom, Eric,
Sigler, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Goss, Erin,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.) :; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Jane Austen and Comedy
  • Contributors
  • PART ONE : Comic Energy and Explosive Humor
  • 1 Austen, Philosophy, and Comic Stylistics
  • 2 Jane Austen: Comedy against Happiness
  • 3 “Open-Hearted”: Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor
  • PART TWO : (Emma’s) Laughter with a Purpose
  • 4 After the Laughter: Seeking Perfect Happiness in Emma
  • 5 The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse
  • PART THREE : Comedic Form, Comedic Effect
  • 6 On Austen, Comedy, and Future Possibility
  • 7 Lost in the Comedy: Austen’s Paternalistic Men and the Problem of Accountability
  • 8 Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters, and Carnivalesque Caricature
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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