The Victorian comic spirit : new perspectives
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The Victorian comic spirit : new perspectives
（Nineteenth century series）
Ashgate, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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"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.
Table of Contents
- Parody, pastiche and the play of genres - Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas, Carolyn Williams
- the fissure King - parody, ideology and the Imperialist narrative, Patricia Murphy
- laughing at the Almighty - freethnking lampoon, satire and parody in Victorian England, David Nash
- tipping Mr Punch "the Haffable Wink" - E.J. Miliken's Cockney verse letters, Patricia marks
- American humour - the Mark of Twain on Jerome K. Jerome, John S. Batts
- humour as daughterly defence in "Cranford", Eileen Gilooly
- Dickens' Dystopian meta-comedy - "Hard Times", morals and religion, Joseph H. Gardner
- transcendence through incongruity - the background of humour in Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus", Abigail Burnham Bloom
- "falling into Philistine hands" - Swinburne's transgressive correspondence, Nicholas Freeman
- Arnold's irony and the deployment of Dandyism, James Najarian
- "Salome" - re-dressing Wilde on the rim, Rob K. Baum
- the laugh of the new woman, Margaret D. Stetz.
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