An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II. THE SMILE AND THE LAUGH.

CHAPTER III. OCCASIONS AND CAUSES OF LAUGHTER.

CHAPTER IV. VARIETIES OF THE LAUGHABLE.

CHAPTER V. THEORIES OF THE LUDICROUS.

CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER.

CHAPTER VII. DEVELOPMENT OF LAUGHTER DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE.

CHAPTER VIII. THE LAUGHTER OF SAVAGES.

CHAPTER IX. LAUGHTER IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION.

CHAPTER X. LAUGHTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL: HUMOUR.

CHAPTER XI. THE LAUGHABLE IN ART: COMEDY.

CHAPTER XII. ULTIMATE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF LAUGHTER.

NOTES

INDEX.

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