An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit is the most extensive work on the nineteenth century comic genre. It was initially presented as Meredith’s first and only public lecture in London in 1877, and published separately as a book in 1897. In it, Meredith defines comedy as a “humour of the mind, ” not prevalent in the British society of his day, which he saw as fraught with “Unreason and Sentimentalism.” The work had a strong influence on writers such...
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George Meredith (1828 –1909) was a English novelist and poet. His early novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) met with critical disapproval, but he had su...
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 344 ● ISBN 9781411464360 ● Mărime fișier 0.4 MB ● Vârstă 99-17 ani ● Editura Barnes & Noble ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5864580 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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