Introduction
In his Essay on Laughter (1902), James Sully observed that ‘[a] startlingly new idea, whether in science, religion, or the utilities of life, finds in its intrinsic reasonableness no defence against the attacks of malicious mirth’. Sully’s prime example of a novel idea being met with hostile jocula...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2022
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | In his Essay on Laughter (1902), James Sully observed that ‘[a] startlingly new idea, whether in science, religion, or the utilities of life, finds in its intrinsic reasonableness no defence against the attacks of malicious mirth’. Sully’s prime example of a novel idea being met with hostile jocularity was that of women’s emancipation which, he wrote, appeared incongruous throughout history and a subject for hilarity from Greek drama onwards. ‘Only today’, Sully added, nearly fifty years aft... |
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