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Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen’s books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second, Jane Austen’s books are comedies, understandable both through the generic form that ends in marriage after the potential hilarity of romantic adversity and through a more general promise of wish fulfillment. In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Jane Austen and Comedy invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen’s work.  

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


In bringing together Austen and comedy, which are both often dismissed as superfluous or irrelevant to a contemporary world, this collection of essays directs attention to the ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the form in which Austen writes: comedy. Ultimately, Jane Austen and Comedy invites its reader to take seriously Austen’s production of laughter and to keep laughing nonetheless.
 

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"Jane Austen and Comedy takes a fresh and capacious approach to its subject.  These engaging contributions range from Eric Lindstroms reading of Austen as a philosophical humorist to Misty Kruegers discussion of Austens fandom and contemporary mashups.  Contributions by Erin Goss, Sean Dempsey, Michael Kramp and David Sigler and others bring together the generic history of comedy, elements of Freudian psychoanalysis, and nuanced readings of Austens texts to broaden our understanding of what comedy means in Austen and why it matters today." Toby Benis, author of Romantic Diasporas

"Jane Austen and Comedy, a collection of essays edited by Erin M. Goss, encourages us to look at Austens comedy, not as relief, but rather as a way of focusing on the serious issues from which we may turn to her fiction for relief." SEL: Studies in English Literature

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"Jane Austen and Comedy represents a long-overdue recognition of the sheer importance of Jane Austen's humor to critique her own societyand ours. Contributors to Erin M. Goss's essay collection navigate the tricky terrain of Austen's laughter, inviting readers to take seriously things not always taken seriously. In their nuanced and often sophisticated readings, they argue that her comedy, far from distracting from political reality or promoting insular nostalgia, signals resistance and even survival, for where tragedy forecloses possibility, comedy asserts a future." Jocelyn Harris, author of Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen

"An impressive compilation of erudite, thoughtful and thought-provoking essays, Jane Austen and Comedy is a seminal work of extraordinary scholarship -- and one that is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library literary collections in general, and Jane Austen supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular." Midwest Book Review

Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Jane Austen and Comedy 1(20)
Erin M. Goss
PART ONE Comic Energy and Explosive Humor
1 Austen, Philosophy, and Comic Stylistics
21(21)
Eric Lindstrom
2 Jane Austen: Comedy against Happiness
42(21)
David Sigler
3 "Open-Hearted": Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor
63(18)
Sean Dempsey
PART TWO (Emma's) Laughter with a Purpose
4 After the Laughter: Seeking Perfect Happiness in Emma
81(17)
Soha Chung
5 The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse
98(29)
Timothy Erwin
PART THREE Comedic Form, Comedic Effect
6 On Austen, Comedy, and Future Possibility
127(19)
Erin M. Goss
7 Lost in the Comedy: Austen's Paternalistic Men and the Problem of Accountability
146(19)
Michael Kramp
8 Sense, Sensibility, Sea Monsters, and Carnivalesque Caricature
165(16)
Misty Krueger
Acknowledgments 181(2)
Bibliography 183(14)
Notes on Contributors 197(2)
Index 199
ERIN GOSS is an associate professor of English at Clemson University in South Carolina. She is the author of Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Bucknell University Press).