Death by Laughter

Name: Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231213295
Price: 3884.00 INR
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Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

by Maggie Hennefeld

Columbia University Press

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Shortlisted, 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize Finalist, 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate--or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women's risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy?

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