Jane Austen and Comedy

Erin Goss (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2019
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-078-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Co-Autor	Eric Lindstrom, David Sigler, Sean Dempsey, Soha Chung
Zusatzinfo	6
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-68448-078-7 / 1684480787
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-078-4 / 9781684480784
Zustand	Neuware