Catharsis in George Meredith's essay on comedy.(Critical Essay)

Victorian Newsletter | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

In his Essay on Comedy Meredith recognizes that the origins of comedy were neither morally nor intellectually respectable, and undertakes to modernize it, in the Victorian sense, by purging it of the brutality of its past and the sentimentality that often accompanied it in his own time. He was not a theorist, but he had obviously assimilated a good deal of theory in thinking about comedy. If we follow him through the rather tangled thickets of the Essay, we are led, ultimately, to the view that comedy is not merely a literary genre, but a faculty employed by reason to correct ...

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