Titlebook: Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930; Jonathan Taylor Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive lice

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,First and Last Laughs: Allegories, Hybrids and Histories, 1840–1930, others, to its most brutal manifestation in the early twentieth century, and the First World War. Alongside this historical dimension, the chapter discusses an alternative form of laughter which seems to exist beyond hybrids, alloys, superiority, .—a transcendental or even apocalyptic laughter.

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,His ‘Last Jest’: On Laughter, Edgar Allan Poe and ‘Hop-Frog’,rted by Poe. The chapter demonstrates how the superiority afforded by laughter simultaneously encodes its opposite—and is hence all-too-easily overturned. For Poe, this overturning is not only a jest, but also a game of ‘hop-frog’ or ‘leap-frog’—a game Poe himself is said to have enjoyed.

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,‘Unseemly Levity’: On Memoirs, Humour and Edmund Gosse,rsive, it also dreams of an angelic or transcendental laughter—of laughter as a kind of pseudo-religious experience which operates beyond superiority and incongruity, and exists only in and for itself.

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