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Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- Comic [The ] in literature --- Comique [Le ] dans la littérature --- Komische [Het ] in de literatuur --- Lach in de literatuur --- Laughter in literature --- Rire dans la littérature --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- Humorous stories [English ]

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Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.

Lach in de literatuur --- Laughter in literature --- Rire dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- Self in literature. --- Laughter --- American wit and humor --- Laughing --- Emotions --- Nonverbal communication --- Wit and humor --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Social life and customs --- History and criticism --- 20th century

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Emoties in de literatuur --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Emotions in literature --- Lach in de literatuur --- Larmes dans la littérature --- Laughter in literature --- Rire dans la littérature --- Tears in literature --- Tranen in de literatuur --- Crying in literature --- Greek literature --- Pleurs dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Psychological aspects --- -Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Crying in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Tears in literature. --- Psychological aspects. --- -Psychological aspects --- Pleurs dans la littérature --- Emotions dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- Rire dans la littérature --- Balkan literature --- Greek literature - Psychological aspects

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Les efforts de l'homme pour se procurer de la joie sont parfois dignes de l'attention du philosophe, écrit Victor Hugo dans L'Homme qui rit. Comme les autres romantiques, il fait pourtant peser un énorme soupçon sur le rire et sur la gaieté. Les rictus omniprésents sous sa plume et celle de ses contemporains appartiennent tant au sadisme qu'à la souffrance, tant au bourreau qu'à sa victime. Alors que notre époque se montre friande de bonne humeur, de fêtes, de festivals, Victor Hugo et ses contemporains des quatre coins de l'Europe jugent que la joie est mal à-propos, elle qui résonne au milieu des souffrances populaires. Il peut lui arriver de sourire ou de verser des larmes, mais le héros hugolien ne rit pas, sauf si on l'y oblige. Doit-on encore lire les romantiques aujourd'hui ? Oui, parce qu'ils nous rappellent qu'il faut résister à la dictature contemporaine de l'allégresse, du rire de force. Voilà pourquoi Rictus romantiques se termine par un « Éloge de la mauvaise humeur ».

Cheerfulness in literature --- Droefheid in de literatuur --- Gaieté dans la littérature --- Lach in de literatuur --- Laughter in literature --- Perversion sexuelle dans la litterature --- Rire dans la littérature --- Sadness in literature --- Seksuele afwijkingen in de literatuur --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Tristesse dans la littérature --- Vrolijkheid in de literatuur --- Hugo, Victor, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rire dans la littérature. --- Perversion dans la littérature. --- Gaieté dans la littérature. --- Tristesse dans la littérature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Sexual deviation in literature. --- Cheerfulness in literature. --- Sadness in literature. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Hugo, Victor --- Hugo, Victor-Marie --- Hjuho, Viktor --- African literature (French) --- History and criticism. --- Hiwkō, Vikʻtʻor, --- Hījū, Fīktūr, --- Gi︠u︡go, Viktor, --- Hsiao-o, --- Hyowgo, Viktor, --- Hugo, Victor Marie, --- Yü-kuo, Wei-kʻo-to, --- Yü-kuo, --- Hūkū, Fīktūr, --- Ounkō, Viktor, --- Hi︠u︡ho, Viktor, --- Hi︠u︡ho, V. --- Hugo, Viktor, --- Huygo, Victo, --- Gi︠u︡go, V. --- Hyugo, Vhikṭara, --- Igo, Viktor, --- I︠U︡go, Viktor, --- Hyūkō, Vikṭar, --- Hīyūkō, Vikṭar, --- Hiwgō, Viktor, --- Гюго, Виктор, --- הוגאָ, װ. --- הוגא, וויקטאר --- הוגא, וויקטאר, --- הוגא, ויקטור, --- הוגא, װיקטאר --- הוגא, װיקטאר, --- הוגו ויקטור, --- הוגו, ויקטור --- הוגו, ויקטור, --- هوجو، فيكتور، --- 雨果, --- Higu, Fikṭuṛ, --- African literature (French) - History and criticism. --- Hugo, Victor, - 1802-1885 - Criticism and interpretation --- perversion --- littérature --- tristesse --- rire --- Hugo, Victor, - 1802-1885