The Victorian Comic Spirit

Name: The Victorian Comic Spirit
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Author: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
ISBN: 9781138701069

New Perspectives

av Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Häftad, Engelska, 2019-11-11

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This title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.

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Victorian Comic Spirit

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

This title was first published in 2000: &quote;Comedy&quote; and &quote;humour&quote; are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this &quote;co...

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1: Parody, Pastiche, and the Play of Genres: The Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; 2: The Fissure King: Parody, Ideology, and the Imperialist Narrative; 3: Laughing at the Almighty: Freethinking Lampoon, Satire, and Parody in Victorian England; 4: Tipping Mr. Punch the Haffable Wink: E. J. Millikens Cockney Verse Letters; 5: American Humor: The Mark of Twain on Jerome K. Jerome; 6: Humor as Daughterly Defense in Cranford; 7: Dickenss Dystopian Metacomedy: Hard Times , Morals, and Religion; 8: Transcendence through Incongruity: The Background of Humor in Carlyles Sartor Resartus; 9: Tailing into Philistine Hands: Swinburnes Transgressive Correspondence; 10: Arnolds Irony and the Deployment of Dandyism; 11: Salom : Re/Dressing Wilde on the Rim; 12: The Laugh of the New Woman