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… to its heartiest: 2 . Ross Carroll, Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021). The Smile leads up ; the Smerk , the Titter, Then each advance (what Order fitter?) The Giggle , the Plain … Laughter (Glasgow: printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1750), p. 32. Shared laughter would nurture social accord. Smiles expressed affability and an ease of manner, while the ‘tee hee’ – or ‘titter’ to which Brownsword referred – was ‘the first … and sociability see Ross Carroll, Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), esp. chapter 2. 8 . Kate Davison, ‘”Plainly of Considerable Moment in Human Society”: Francis Hutcheson and …
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