The Egoist and Meredith’s Essay on Comedy

The article “The Egoist and Meredith’s Essay on Comedy” explores how George Meredith’s ideas about comedy influenced the modernist journal The Egoist and its writers, including Dora Marsden and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Meredith’s Essay on Comedy argues that true comedy exposes human folly through intellectual wit rather than emotional sentiment, serving as a “social corrective” that refines thought and behavior.

The essay traces Meredith’s vision of the “comic spirit” — a detached, rational perspective that mocks vanity and pretension — and shows how The Egoist adopted this attitude in its modernist critique of Victorian morality, sentimentality, and conventional gender roles. The article suggests that both Meredith and The Egoist share a concern with individual consciousness, irony, and moral intelligence, using comedy as a means of liberation from social hypocrisy.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Bell, Nigel

Đề mục:

Literary Studies

Nhà xuất bản:

Taylor & Francis.

Ngày xuất bản:

2010

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Định dạng:

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2010.536363

Nguồn gốc:

English Studies in Africa, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 3-20,123

Liên kết:

ISSN 0013-8398

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The Egoist and Meredith’s Essay on Comedy

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