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Introduction: The New Woman and Humour

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: 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...

Source: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens

DOI: 10.4000/cve.11620

Authors: Catherine Delyfer, Nathalie Saudo-Welby

Institutions: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Conflits, représentations et dialogues dans l'univers anglo-saxon, Université de Picardie Jules Verne

Language: French

Topic: Humor Studies and Applications

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4309155142

FWCI: 0.173

Cites: 21

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10