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London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 214 pp. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction : historical laughter -- Land of cockaigne. A laughing emperor ; Ulenspieghel ; Fooling by numbers ; Guessing and laughing ; Printed jests ; The social circulation of laughter -- Laughter embodied. Physiognomy and the decorum of the body ; Smiling ; Shaking ; True and false laughter ; The whims of the laughing body -- A cure for the civilized. Chasing melancholy ; The seriousness of monkeys ; Civilized joking ; Learning to laugh -- The politics of joking. The white god ; 1566 and all that ; Vive les Gueux ; communities of laughter -- Entremets : turning Bakhtin upside down ; Bakhtin and the history of laughter ; does laughter have a history at all? -- Censoring lies.…
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Macmillan, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardback in Near Fine condition. Black cloth boards are clean with just a hint of wear to the head and toe of the spine, edge of text block has a few very minor spots, previous bookseller's price and reference in pencil to fep otherwise clean, no inscriptions, binding tight. Unclipped jacket is Near Fine Plus, very minor edge wear, now protected ina removable clear plastic jacket. Price includes standard postage worldwide.
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