A History of English Laughter PDF book is popular Literary Collections book written by Manfred Pfister. The book was released by Rodopi on 2002 with total hardcover pages 220. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read A History of English Laughter by Manfred Pfister in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Is there a 'history' of laughter? Or isn't laughter an anthropological constant rather and thus beyond history, a human feature that has defined humanity as hom
Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection o
Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I
A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, fa
Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather,
