INDEX.
Abstraction, in representation of character in comedy, 358, 359, 367.
Absurd, the, as laughable, 110, 152, 216, 217, 239, 294.
Addison, Jos., 30 note, 95, 304 note, 354, 355, 423.
Affectation, in comedy, 351.
Ainger, Alfred, 390 note.
Allin, A. See Hall, G. S.
Analogy of feeling, 191.
Angell, J. R., 33 note, 36 note.
Animals; ticklishness of, 57 162, 163, 177; laughter of, 156, 161, 170, 172, 177; tricks of, 157; sense of fun in, 158, 160; play of, 158 ff.
Apes. See Animals.
Apperception, 14, 59, 127, 130, 131, 135.
Apprehension, dissolved, as cause of laughter. See Fear.
Apuleius, 290.
Arabian Nights, 264.
Aristophanes, 282, 292, 348, 352, 357, 360, 371, 378.
Aristotle, 120, 412, 413, 416, 417 note, 418, 420.
Art, amusing function of, 343 (Chapter XI.); origin of, 344; scope for exhibition of laughable in, 345; humour in essays, etc., 390, 391 (see Fiction, Comedy).
Artificial, comedy, 371; world of comedy, 373, 377.
Assimilation in social evolution, 276, 286.
Assimilative force of laughter, 272.
Austen, Jane, 378.
Bacon, Francis, on laughter, 22.
Bain, Alexander, his theory of the ludicrous, 121–124, 140, 143; on cruelty of savage laughter, 232 note.
Balzac, H. de, 379.
Barrie, J. M., 242.
Barrow, Isaac, 419.
— John, 236 note.
Bashkirtseff, M., 321.
Bates, H. W., 223.
Beating, as comic incident, 348.
Beddard, F. E., 171.
Bédier, Jos., 262 note, 263 note, 264, 270 note, 312 note.
Belittling of idea, as cause of laughter, 9.
Benevolent, mirthfulness as, 417.
Bergk, Th., 346, 360 note, 381.
Bergson, H., 7, 8 note, 104, 114, 140 note, 348 note, 367 note, 374, 413 note.
Born, Bertran de, 263.
Bosanquet, B., 6 note.
Bridgman, Laura, 170.
Browne, Thomas, 390.
Brutal laughter, 89, 97, 143, 231–233, 315, 381.
Bülow, H. von, 330 note.
Burchell, W. J., 239.
Butler, Samuel, 115.
Butt, of wit, 355.
Buyer and seller, laughter between, 270.
Campbell, Harry, 35 note.
Capes, B., 325 note.
Carlyle, T., 36, 49, 299, 390, 400, 404 416.
Carus, Paul, 12 note.
Cervantes, S. M. de, 282, 310, 314, 389.
Champneys, F. H., 165.
Character, the laughable in, 133, 307, 315, 321; incongruity between circumstances and, 318, 369; interest in, 318, 358; presentation of, in comedy, 357–370. {434}
Chaucer, G., 30 note.
Chesterfield, Earl of, 1.
Child, development of laughter in (Chapter VII.); first laughter of triumph, 83, 198, 200, 204, 210; sayings of, as laughable, 106; degradation theory applied to laughter of, 123, 124, 137; beginnings of smile and laugh in, 164–168, 188; spontaneous laughter of, 187, 207; extension of field of laughable, for, 191, 192; growth of self-feeling in laughter of, 192, 203, 205; growing complication of laughter of, 192, 193; early laughter of joy, 194–198; early laughter of play, 194, 198–207, 211, 212; early laughter of teasing, 201–203; early defiance of order, 203, 204, 211, 213; first roguish laughter, 205, 206; early appreciation of the laughable, 207–217; first laughter at sounds, 209–212; early feeling of propriety, 211–215.
Choral laughter, 247, 258, 295; decline of, 429.
Cibber, Colley, 292 note.
Cicero, 384.
Class, differentiation of, 247, 258, 259; changes in, as laughable, 287.
Clergy, laughter at the, 109, 262, 267, 294, 346; laughter of the, 283.
Coleridge, S. T., 364, 374 note.
Collier, Jeremy, 411.
Combat, playful, as origin of laughter of tickling, 179–181.
Comedy (Chapter XI.), Greek, 264, 291, 346, 353, 361, 389 (see also Aristophanes); of the Restoration, 283, 287, 370–373, 383; Roman, 291, 376 (see also Plautus, Terence); conditions of the rise of, 347; elements of primitive laughter in, 348–357, 379; of Incident, 357; of Manners, 357, 370–373, 376; of Character, 357–370; Elizabethan, 361; point of view of, 368–377, 410; mood addressed by, 370, 373, 375, 377, 412; attitude of, towards morality, 372–377, 411; limits to, 377; approach to point of view of, in fiction, 378; satirical element in, 381; humour in, 387; corrective function of, 411–414; Modern, 413.
Comic art, rudiments of, in savage life, 250.
— the, distinguished from the laughable, 86.
Common-sense. See Point of View.
Concept, function of the, in laughter, 7, 13, 130–133, 135.
Congreve, W., 357, 370, 372, 411.
Conservative force of laughter, 257, 261. See Progress.
Contagiousness of laughter, 42, 186, 255.
Conte, the mediæval, 34, 86, 91, 262, 267, 284, 292, 311, 346, 373.
Contempt, laughter of, 78, 83, 89, 97, 118, 142, 205, 234, 299, 320, 380.
Contests, laughter in, 78, 83; laughter at the sight of, 117; of the sexes, see Woman, Laughter of Man and.
Contrariety, theory of. See Incongruity.
Contrast, effect of, in comic characters, 365.
Coquelin, B. C., aîné, 109.
— cadet, 86 note.
Corrective function of laughter. See Value of Laughter.
Counteractives of laughter, 84, 88, 90, 93, 96, 98, 101, 102, 111.
Courdaveaux, V., 130 note.
Courthope, W., 361 note.
Cruickshank, B., 225, 226, 235.
Culture, gradations of, 284; spread of, 286, 288.
Curtius, Ernst, 277 note.
Custom, effect of, on laughter, 84, 294, 318.
Customary, the, as standard in comedy, 375–377.
Cynicism in modern laughter, 431.
Darwin, C., 26, 38, 40, 57, 60, 63, 70, 71, 156, 159, 162, 163, 164, 169, 170, 171, 172, 177, 224, 227, 280.
Daudet, A., 378.
David, Mrs. F. W. E., 229.
Deformity, as laughable, 89, 231.
— moral. See Vice.
Degradation, theory of (moral theory), 119–125, 128, 137, 153.
Dennett, R. E., 251.
Descartes, R., 70.
Descending incongruity, 137.
Deschamps, E., 222 note. {435}
Detachment in humorous observation, 331, 337, 407–409.
Difference, judgment of, 15 note.
Dignity, loss of, as laughable, 99, 119–125, 128, 136, 213, 214, 266.
Discomfiture, the sight of, as laughable, 117.
Disguise, in comedy, 349, 369.
Disorder, as laughable, 94, 266, 342; in comedy, 371.
Dog, the. See Animals.
Doran, John, 291.
Dugas, L., 47 note, 130 note, 149 note, 306 note, 400 note, 413 note.
Edgeworth, R. L. and M., 313 note.
Education, laughter in, 426.
Eliot, George, 109, 271, 298, 299, 385 note, 386 note, 389.
Embarrassment, relief from, producing laughter, 228, 238.
Emotions, James’ theory of, 40; development of, 189; fusion of, 308–310.
Epicureans, 397.
Estimable, the, in the laughable, 306, 310, 317.
Evolutional utility of laughter, 408, 431.
Excellence, laughter as an, 3, 416, 422, 423.
Expectation, annulled, as cause of laughter, 9, 12, 18, 64, 125, 126–130.
Fabliau. See Conte.
Fanciful world of comedy, 372, 373, 377.
Fantastic ideas, as laughable, 88.
Fashion, definition of, 273; movements of, 273; as restrained by custom, 275; as laughable, 276–279.
Father and child, relation of, in comedy, 265, 353, 361.
Fear, relief from nascent, as element in tickling, 63; laughter as reaction from, 65, 176, 199; as inhibitory of laughter, 88.
Feeling tone, of sensations of tickling, 54; of humour, 305, 310; of comic mood, 370, 376.
Fiction, prose, comic point of view in, 378, 379; addressed to a reflective mood, 379; humour in, 387–390.
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, J., 314 note.
Flaubert, G., 306.
Fools, 249, 250, 291, 343; “Feast of,” 346.
Fouillée, A., 137.
Fox, fable of the, 382.
French, the, gaiety of, 311.
Fun, sense of, in children, 64, 76, 77, 87, 112, 125, 137, 140, 169, 176, 181, 194, 315; in savages, 234, 252; in comedy, 347–350, 353, 357, 369.
Future of laughter, 427.
Gardner, P., 264, 292 note, 343 note, 346 note.
Genetic method, necessity of, in studying the ludicrous, 154.
Gillen, F. J. See Spencer, B.
Gillray, Jas., 293 note.
Gladness, as expressed in laughter, 71, 195. See Pleasure.
Goldsmith, O., 298, 328, 387, 388, 424.
Gratiolet, L. P., 31.
Grey, George, 250.
Grief, as causing laughter, 66, 67; resemblance of manifestation of, to laughter, 70, 309.