The alchemy of laughter
Subtitle: comedy in English fiction
By: Glen Cavaliero.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism.; Comic, The, in literature.; Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism.; Laughter in literature.
Description: "Drawing on a wide variety of texts in order to observe the comedic process in action, Glen Cavaliero examines the ways in which irony, satire, celebration, parody, farce and other categories of comedy function withing the confines of a novel."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-249) and index.