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"It's all here, everything, everything that has ever made someone laugh: Charlie Chaplin, Monty Python, sex, gas, dreams, ourang-outangs, the English, machines, mud, God, death, war, philosophy. In short: this is all but the last word on laughter – all but the last laugh, someone might say" — Professor John Schad, Lancaster University, UK "A provocative study of comic effects that are central to the reader's response yet overlooked by literary critics. Taylor's writing is both scholarly and entertaining, as he anatomises the links between laughter, cruelty and violence. His insights into the relationship between the hybridity of laughter and the generic hybridity of short story and memoir will be invaluable to scholars of both of these forms" — Professor Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK "Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 treats the relationship between laughter and violence, and between conflicting emotions and incongruous feelings. This scholarly captivating study reflects upon the “hybrid” nature of humour by using works penned by American and British writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield. Deftly moving between philosophy and literature, Jonathan Taylor tackles the ambivalent implications of comedy against the grain of standard approaches to the idea of “amusement”. This book engages with recent scholarship, but – at the same time – offers a different perspective to the relationship between the literary and the humoristic, presenting an extensive treatment of the subject in a period ranging from the nineteenth century to Modernism." — Saverio Tomaiuolo, Associate Professor of English Literature and Language, Cassino University, Italy.

Laughter in literature. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Literature, Modern—19th century.

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In recent years critics of Romantic poetry have divided into two groups that have little to say to one another. One group, as yet the most numerous, insists that to study a poem is to investigate the historical circumstances out of which it was produced; the other retorts that poetry offers pleasures fully available only to readers whose attention is focused on their language. This book attempts to reconcile the two groups by arguing that a poet's most effective political action is the forging of a new language, and that the political import of a poem is a function of its style.

Poetry --- Political communication --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern—19th century

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Europäer und Wiener, Lyriker und raffinierter Erzähler, erfolgreicher und manchmal packend gescheiterter Dramatiker, weltoffener Essayist und unbequemer Zeitgenosse, sprachmächtiger Sprachskeptiker im Brief des Lord Chandos dieses Handbuch beleuchtet die schwer überschaubare Vielseitigkeit des Werkes in seinen ideen- und kulturgeschichtlichen Verschränkungen. Erträge der Forschung und der Editionen werden zu Perspektiven gebündelt, die eine komplexe Gestalt der Moderne als Spiegel darüber hinausreichender Fragen zeigen.

European literature. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- European Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century.

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This book is about Anglo-American literary heritage. It argues that readers on both sides of the Atlantic shaped the contours of international ‘English’ in the 1800s, expressing love for books and authors in a wide range of media and social practices. It highlights how, in the wake of American independence, the affection bestowed on authors who became international objects of celebration and commemoration was a major force in the invention of transnational ‘English’ literature, the popular canon defined by shared language and tradition. While love as such is difficult to quantify and recover, the records of such affection survive not just in print, but also in other media: in monuments, in architecture, and in the ephemera of material culture. Thus, this collection brings into view a wide range of nineteenth-century expressions of love for literature and its creators. .

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- 19th century. --- English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century.

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‘In a stimulating text rich with “alternate facts”, Carver reminds us that history is also what failed to happen and that each historical present carries with it its fantasies of alternate realities. The counterfactual has become a banality today, but this stimulating history of plural virtualities demonstrates how poetic our prosaic 19th century was in fact, and how productively it confronted its own unrealized possibilities.’ — Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, USA ‘Ben Carver's lucid and insightful book reveals the spread of alternate-history speculation through a surprisingly wide range of nineteenth-century disciplines, genres, and national literatures. Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the century's historical imagination.’ — Catherine Gallagher, Eggers Professor of English Literature, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA 'Ben Carver has produced a rich, wide-ranging and imaginative study of a neglected genre that has much to teach us about the nineteenth century and its characteristic modes of narrating the past, present and future. This is, in short, a valuable alternate history of Victorian historiography, as well as an original contribution to our understanding of the utopian imagination.' — Matthew Beaumont, Professor of English Literature, University College London, UK style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;">This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that “discovered” improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The “untimely” imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- 19th century. --- Alternative histories (Fiction) --- History and criticism. --- Alternate histories (Fiction) --- Fiction --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century.