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

17 chapters

1. 1AN ESSAY ON LAUGHTER by JAMES SULLY
2. 2PREFACE.
3. 3CONTENTS.
4. 4CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
5. 5CHAPTER II. THE SMILE AND THE LAUGH.
6. 6CHAPTER III. OCCASIONS AND CAUSES OF LAUGHTER.
7. 7CHAPTER IV. VARIETIES OF THE LAUGHABLE.
8. 8CHAPTER V. THEORIES OF THE LUDICROUS.
9. 9CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER.
10. 10CHAPTER VII. DEVELOPMENT OF LAUGHTER DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE.
11. 11CHAPTER VIII. THE LAUGHTER OF SAVAGES.
12. 12CHAPTER IX. LAUGHTER IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION.
13. 13CHAPTER X. LAUGHTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL: HUMOUR.
14. 14CHAPTER XI. THE LAUGHABLE IN ART: COMEDY.
15. 15CHAPTER XII. ULTIMATE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF LAUGHTER.
16. 16NOTES
17. 17INDEX.