Laughter [ Communication ]
… – the ubiquitous aspiration of polite society. The German philosopher Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) epitomised this sentiment in his 200-page exposition on the art of jesting, which noted: As it is always an indication of a vitiated low … the collective enjoyment the book offered: 11 . Simon Dickie, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012); Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and … Supplement (vol. 88, 2020), p. 143-169. Dickie, Simon Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). Gatrell, Vic, City of Laughter: Sex and …
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