Jane Austen and comedy /

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Imprint:Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
Transits (Bucknell University)
Subject:Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Humor.
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817.
Humor in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Humor in literature.
Humor.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353667
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Other authors / contributors:Goss, Erin., 1976- editor.
Bucknell University Press.
ISBN:1684480817
9781684480814
Notes:Electronic version record
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Jane Austen and comedy. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2019] 9781684480784 9781684480777