During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and

Analyzes humor in literary works by British authors of the 20th century and provides extensive bibliographical information.

In The Right to Parody: Comparative Analysis of Free and Fair Speech, Amy Lai examines the right to parody as a natural right in free speech and copyright, prop

Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an

The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are deve