Laughter, literature, violence, 1840-1930 / Jonathan Taylor.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 First and Last Laughs: Allegories, Hybrids and Histories, 1840-1930; 1 Comedy and Hybridity; 2 Laughter and Annihilation; Chapter 2 His 'Last Jest': On Laughter, Edgar Allan Poe and 'Hop-Frog'; 1 Comedy and Horror; 2 Laughter and Democracy; 3 Laughter and Leap-Frog; Chapter 3 'Unseemly Levity': On Memoirs, Humour and Edmund Gosse; 1 Humour and Genre; 2 Humour and Emotion; 3 Humour and Text; 4 Humour and Beyond; Chapter 4 'Perfect Laughter': On War, Wyndham Lewis and The Wild Body; 1 Laughter and Dualism; 2 Laughter, Dualism and Bodies

3 Laughter, Dualism, Bodies and AnarchismChapter 5 'Derisive Laughter': On Superiority, Katherine Mansfield and 'Miss Brill'; Bibliography; Index