Victorian Comedy and Laughter Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Lee, Louise (Editor)
Summary:	XIV, 359 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:	1st ed. 2020.
Subjects:	European literature. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Civilization > History. Theater > History. European Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Cultural History. Theatre History.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57882-2
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent
2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ‘Laughter & Conviviality’. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ‘Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence’. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ‘Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe’
5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ‘“Capital Company”: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain’
6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ‘George Eliot’s Jokes’
7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ‘The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-book and Circus Performance’. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ‘“Sassin’ back”: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences’
9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ‘“Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods”: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall’. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ‘Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall’
11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ‘What was New about the “New Humour”?: Barry Pain’s “Divine Carelessness”’. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ‘Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s “Pen, Pencil and Poison” .

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