An Essay on Laughter
by James Sully
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sully, James, 1842-1923
- Title
- An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Laughter
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58606
- Release Date
- January 3, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AN ESSAY ON LAUGHTER by JAMES SULLY — PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — CHAPTER II. THE SMILE AND THE LAUGH. — CHAPTER III. OCCASIONS AND CAUSES OF LAUGHTER. — CHAPTER IV. VARIETIES OF THE LAUGHABLE. — CHAPTER V. THEORIES OF THE LUDICROUS. — CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER. — CHAPTER VII. DEVELOPMENT OF LAUGHTER DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE. — CHAPTER VIII. THE LAUGHTER OF SAVAGES. — CHAPTER IX. LAUGHTER IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION. — CHAPTER X. LAUGHTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL: HUMOUR. — CHAPTER XI. THE LAUGHABLE IN ART: COMEDY. — CHAPTER XII. ULTIMATE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF LAUGHTER. — NOTES — INDEX.
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