9781684480784

Jane Austen and Comedy

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781684480784

Hardcover|9781684480784


Overview

Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen's books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second, Jane Austen's books are comedies, understandable both through the generic form that ends in marriage after the potential hilarity of romantic adversity and through a more general promise of wish fulfillment. 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. Jane Austen and Comedy invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen's work.  

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

ISBN-13

9781684480784

ISBN-10

1684480787

Weight

1.06 Pounds

Dimensions

6.13 x 0.70 x 9.25 In

List Price

$150.00

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

218 pages

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

Published On

2019-04-26



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