Laughing to excess : Gothic fiction and the pathologisation of laughter in late Victorian Britain
This thesis places late Victorian medical, biological, and psychological studies of laughter alongside classic examples ofjin-de-siecle gothic fiction in order to consider the discursive links between laughter and pathology. Through an investigation of scientific and pseudoscientific texts that disc...
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Birkbeck (University of London)
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539701 |