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Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Editor’s Acknowledgments Series Preface Introduction, Elizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia, USA) 1. Form, Brian Corman (University of Toronto, Canada) 2. Theory, Jean I. Marsden (University of Connecticut, USA) 3. Praxis: The Practice of Comedy in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Laura J. Rosenthal (University of Maryland, USA) 4. Identities: Deception, Discovery, and the Paradox of the Dark Lantern, Heather Ladd (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) 5. The Body: Performing Comic Eighteenth-Century Embodiment, Misty G. Anderson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 6. Politics and Power, Aparna Gollapudi (Colorado State University, USA) 7. Laughter: Enlightenment Philosophies of Laughter, from Superiority Theory to Incongruity Theory, Andrew Benjamin Bricker (Ghent University, Belgium) 8. Ethics, Melvyn New (University of Florida, USA) Notes References Index

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 17/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781350000742, 978-1350000742
      ISBN10: 1350000744
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Editor’s Acknowledgments Series Preface Introduction, Elizabeth Kraft (University of Georgia, USA) 1. Form, Brian Corman (University of Toronto, Canada) 2. Theory, Jean I. Marsden (University of Connecticut, USA) 3. Praxis: The Practice of Comedy in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Laura J. Rosenthal (University of Maryland, USA) 4. Identities: Deception, Discovery, and the Paradox of the Dark Lantern, Heather Ladd (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) 5. The Body: Performing Comic Eighteenth-Century Embodiment, Misty G. Anderson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) 6. Politics and Power, Aparna Gollapudi (Colorado State University, USA) 7. Laughter: Enlightenment Philosophies of Laughter, from Superiority Theory to Incongruity Theory, Andrew Benjamin Bricker (Ghent University, Belgium) 8. Ethics, Melvyn New (University of Florida, USA) Notes References Index

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