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Informationen zum Autor ERIN GOSS is an associate professor of English at Clemson University in South Carolina. She is the author of Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Bucknell University Press). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ... v Abbreviations ... vi Introduction: Austen and Comedy ... 1 Erin M. Goss Part I. Comic Energy and Explosive Humor ... 27 One - Austen, Philosophy, and Comic Stylistics ... 28 Eric Lindstrom Two - Jane Austen: Comedy Against Happiness ... 62 David Sigler Three - "Open-Hearted": Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor ... 95 Sean Dempsey Part II. (Emma's) Laughter with a Purpose ... 121 Four - After the Laughter: Seeking Perfect Happiness in Emma ... 122 Soha Chung Five - The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse ... 148 Timothy Erwin Part III. Comedic Form, Comedic Effect ... 186 Six - On Austen, Comedy, and Future Possibility ... 187 Erin M. Goss Seven - Lost in the Comedy: Austen's Paternalistic Men and the Problem of Accountability ...218 Michael Kramp Eight - Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters, and Carnivalesque Caricature ... 248 Misty Krueger Acknowledgments ... 272 Bibliography ... 273 Index ... 301 About the Contributors ... 302...
