Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Matthew Ward teaches at the University of Birmingham. He is the co-editor, with Clare Bucknell, of Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy (CUP, 2021), and has published on poetry and the history of ideas in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Essays in Criticism, Cambridge Quarterly, the Keats-Shelley Review, and The Byron Journal. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling is his first monograph.
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Abbreviations A Note on the Texts Introduction PART ONE ON LAUGHTER 1: Laughter Means Sympathy? 2: An Incongruous Pair: A Romantic Sense of Humour and the Poetic Imagination PART TWO ON LAUGHING POETS AND POETICS 3: Wordsworth's Laughing Company 4: Shelley's Poetic Measures and Laughing Pleasures 5: Keats's Melodious Chuckle Coda: Byron's Last Laugh Selected Bibliography Index
Abbreviations A Note on the Texts Introduction PART ONE ON LAUGHTER 1: Laughter Means Sympathy? 2: An Incongruous Pair: A Romantic Sense of Humour and the Poetic Imagination PART TWO ON LAUGHING POETS AND POETICS 3: Wordsworth's Laughing Company 4: Shelley's Poetic Measures and Laughing Pleasures 5: Keats's Melodious Chuckle Coda: Byron's Last Laugh Selected Bibliography Index
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