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"It's all here, everything, everything that has ever made someone laugh: Charlie Chaplin, Monty Python, sex, gas, dreams, ourang-outangs, the English, machines, mud, God, death, war, philosophy. In short: this is all but the last word on laughter – all but the last laugh, someone might say" — Professor John Schad, Lancaster University, UK "A provocative study of comic effects that are central to the reader's response yet overlooked by literary critics. Taylor's writing is both scholarly and entertaining, as he anatomises the links between laughter, cruelty and violence. His insights into the relationship between the hybridity of laughter and the generic hybridity of short story and memoir will be invaluable to scholars of both of these forms" — Professor Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK "Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 treats the relationship between laughter and violence, and between conflicting emotions and incongruous feelings. This scholarly captivating study reflects upon the “hybrid” nature of humour by using works penned by American and British writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield. Deftly moving between philosophy and literature, Jonathan Taylor tackles the ambivalent implications of comedy against the grain of standard approaches to the idea of “amusement”. This book engages with recent scholarship, but – at the same time – offers a different perspective to the relationship between the literary and the humoristic, presenting an extensive treatment of the subject in a period ranging from the nineteenth century to Modernism." — Saverio Tomaiuolo, Associate Professor of English Literature and Language, Cassino University, Italy.

Laughter in literature. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Literature, Modern—19th century.

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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael’s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab’s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales and whaling, which has not received significant critical attention. While each of these perspectives compete for prominence in the narrative, Ahab and Ishmael's stories have often distracted from the vital significance of the whaling narrative as what outlasts Ahab’s obsessive mission. Catalano rights this wrong by coming to a strikingly original and thought-provoking conclusion which becomes the heart of the book's argument: “the unity of Melville’s book comes, first, from the way the numerous literary, philosophical, and religious reflections are rooted in those magnificent beings, whales and in the men and ships that pursue them, and, second, in the way these reflections illuminate our own lives.” Joseph S. Catalono is professor emeritus of philosophy at Kean University, USA. Some of his previous publications include Thinking Matter: Consciousness From Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre (2000), Reading Sartre: An Invitation…(2010), and The Saint and the Atheist: Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (2021).

Literature, Modern --- America --- Oceanography. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Ocean Sciences. --- 19th century. --- Literatures.

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Dieses Lehrbuch informiert umfassende über die Literatur der deutschen Romantik von der Frühromantik bis zu den Ausläufern der Spätromantik um 1830/40. Der Autor versteht die deutsche Romantik als eine literarische Revolution, von der entscheidende Impulse für eine literarische Moderne in ganz Europa ausgehen. Der Band skizziert die kultur- bzw. sozialgeschichtlichen sowie die philosophischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontexte der Romantik sowie die romantische Poetik und Ästhetik. Den Hauptteil bildet die ausführliche Darstellung zentraler Werke der verschiedenen Gattungen. Für die 4. Auflage wurde der Band durchgesehen und insbesondere bibliographisch aktualisiert.

Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literary History. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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Romanticism and the Letter is a collection of essays that explore various aspects of letter writing in the Romantic period of British Literature. Although the correspondence of the Romantics constitutes a major literary achievement in its own right, it has received relatively little critical attention. Essays focus on the letters of major poets, including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats; novelists and prose writers, including Jane Austen, Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb; and lesser-known writers such as Melesina Trench and Mary Leadbeater. Moving from theories of letter writing, through the period’s diverse epistolary culture, to essays on individual writers, the collection opens new perspectives for students and scholars of the Romantic period. Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Liverpool University Press published her first monograph, Shelley’s Living Artistry: The Poetry and Drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 2017, and her book, The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley (2019) is published by Anthem Press. Anthony Howe is Reader in English Literature at Birmingham City University. His publications include Byron and the Forms of Thought (Liverpool, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013), edited with Michael O’Neill. He is currently writing a monograph about literary letter writing in the British Romantic period.

English letters --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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popular culture --- victorian fiction --- nineteenth century literature --- popular fiction --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- History and criticism --- 1800-1899 --- English literature