Mou-Lan Wong is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.James S. Whitehead is former Headteacher and Director of Education for Rugby School Global.

• Introduction Reading Humour: Anecdotes, Satires, and Polemic 1. Between Joke and Story: The Rise of the Humorous Anecdote in the Nineteenth Century 2. The “Wittiest Woman”: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany 3. Margaret Oliphant’s Experiment of Humour: Miss Marjoribanks as the “Satirist’s Collection” 4. Play-fighting: The Humour of Polemic in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism Viewing Humour: Pictorial Parodies, Periodicals, and Performances 5. “Parody… the Muse with Her Tongue in Cheek”: The Collected Poems of Oscuro Wildegoose 6. The Humour of Punch: Thomas Hardy and New Imperialism 7. “You Can’t Stop A Girl From Thinking”: The Press, the Censor and Moral Ambiguity in Women’s Comic Performances on the Victorian Music Hall Blending Humour: Experimental, Culinary, and Intermedial 8. Water-tigers, Jam-pots, and “Ye Mikroskopiker’s Arms”: Boundary-work and Boundary Objects in Comic Microscopy 9. “(O! horror) ‘crumb chops!’”: Humour and Identity-Making in Late Victorian Anglo-Indian Cookbooks 10. From Incongruity to Intercongruity: Christina Rossetti’s Humorous Intermedia

Mou-Lan Wong is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.James S. Whitehead is former Headteacher and Director of Education for Rugby School Global.

• Introduction Reading Humour: Anecdotes, Satires, and Polemic 1. Between Joke and Story: The Rise of the Humorous Anecdote in the Nineteenth Century 2. The “Wittiest Woman”: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany 3. Margaret Oliphant’s Experiment of Humour: Miss Marjoribanks as the “Satirist’s Collection” 4. Play-fighting: The Humour of Polemic in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism Viewing Humour: Pictorial Parodies, Periodicals, and Performances 5. “Parody… the Muse with Her Tongue in Cheek”: The Collected Poems of Oscuro Wildegoose 6. The Humour of Punch: Thomas Hardy and New Imperialism 7. “You Can’t Stop A Girl From Thinking”: The Press, the Censor and Moral Ambiguity in Women’s Comic Performances on the Victorian Music Hall Blending Humour: Experimental, Culinary, and Intermedial 8. Water-tigers, Jam-pots, and “Ye Mikroskopiker’s Arms”: Boundary-work and Boundary Objects in Comic Microscopy 9. “(O! horror) ‘crumb chops!’”: Humour and Identity-Making in Late Victorian Anglo-Indian Cookbooks 10. From Incongruity to Intercongruity: Christina Rossetti’s Humorous Intermedia

Mou-Lan Wong is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.James S. Whitehead is former Headteacher and Director of Education for Rugby School Global.

• Introduction Reading Humour: Anecdotes, Satires, and Polemic 1. Between Joke and Story: The Rise of the Humorous Anecdote in the Nineteenth Century 2. The “Wittiest Woman”: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany 3. Margaret Oliphant’s Experiment of Humour: Miss Marjoribanks as the “Satirist’s Collection” 4. Play-fighting: The Humour of Polemic in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism Viewing Humour: Pictorial Parodies, Periodicals, and Performances 5. “Parody… the Muse with Her Tongue in Cheek”: The Collected Poems of Oscuro Wildegoose 6. The Humour of Punch: Thomas Hardy and New Imperialism 7. “You Can’t Stop A Girl From Thinking”: The Press, the Censor and Moral Ambiguity in Women’s Comic Performances on the Victorian Music Hall Blending Humour: Experimental, Culinary, and Intermedial 8. Water-tigers, Jam-pots, and “Ye Mikroskopiker’s Arms”: Boundary-work and Boundary Objects in Comic Microscopy 9. “(O! horror) ‘crumb chops!’”: Humour and Identity-Making in Late Victorian Anglo-Indian Cookbooks 10. From Incongruity to Intercongruity: Christina Rossetti’s Humorous Intermedia