Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema by Maggie Hennefeld

Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Maggie Hennefeld

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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 de...

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