The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America /

"The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What ha...

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Main Author: Wickberg, Daniel, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
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