Laughter [ Communication ]
… Image William Hogarth, ‘The Laughing Audience (or A Pleased Audience)’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D21374, 1733. Résumé Laughter … not all laughs were created equal. The classificatory approach taken in eighteenth-century Britain was epitomised by William Brownsword’s Laugh Upon Laugh: or Laughter Ridicul’d (1740). It promised to account for ‘the several Kinds or … each advance (what Order fitter?) The Giggle , the Plain Laugh , the Sneer, The Grin , the Horse-Laugh in the rear 3 3 . William Brownsword, Laugh Upon Laugh, or Laughter Ridicul’d (London, 1740), p. 20. Laughter involved a complex interplay …
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