Jane Austen and Comedy

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori	Erin Goss
Con la collaborazione di	Erin Goss (Editore)
Editore	Rutgers University Press
Lingue	Inglese
Formato	Tascabile
Pubblicazione	30.04.2019
EAN	9781684480777
ISBN	978-1-68448-077-7
Pagine	218
Serie	Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
Categoria	Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Erin Goss
• Con la collaborazione di: Erin Goss (Editore)
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781684480777
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-077-7
• Pagine: 218
• Serie: Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese