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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment 4 by Andrew McConnell Stott, Elizabeth Kraft, Eric Weitz (Drama professor), Michael Ewans, Martha Bayless, Matthew Kaiser, Louise Sarah Peacock is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization, and growing emphasis on individualism. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and

Who reads A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment 4?

Author

Andrew McConnell Stott, Elizabeth Kraft, Eric Weitz (Drama professor), Michael Ewans, Martha Bayless, Matthew Kaiser, Louise Sarah Peacock

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350000711

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, History, Literary Criticism