The senses of humor
Wit and Humor as Topic
Laughter
Self in literature
American wit and humor
Social aspects
Social life and customs
History and criticism
The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in th…
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