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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1
- Idea of humor
- ch. 2.
- Humor, laughter, and sensibility
- ch. 3.
- Bureaucratic individualism and the sense of humor
- ch. 4.
- Commodity form of the joke
- ch. 5.
- Humorous and the serious.