Overview: Is the only book dealing with philosophies of humor, comedy, and laughter in the 19th Century.Helps distinguish among aesthetic categories such as humor, comedy, laughter, irony, wit, and satire.ConsiThis book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important distinctions within th
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