The Victorian Comic Spirit
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The Victorian Comic Spirit

New Perspectives

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The Victorian Comic Spirit

New Perspectives

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351790529
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. The Nineteenth Century General Editors’ Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: New Perspectives on the Victorian Comic Spirit
  10. 1 Parody, Pastiche, and the Play of Genres: The Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
  11. 2 The Fissure King: Parody, Ideology, and the Imperialist Narrative
  12. 3 Laughing at the Almighty: Freethinking Lampoon, Satire, and Parody in Victorian England
  13. 4 Tipping Mr. Punch “the Haffable Wink”: E. J. Milliken’s Cockney Verse Letters
  14. 5 American Humor: The Mark of Twain on Jerome K. Jerome
  15. 6. Humor as Daughterly Defense in Cranford
  16. 7. Dickens’s Dystopian Metacomedy: Hard Times, Morals, and Religion
  17. 8. Transcendence through Incongruity: The Background of Humor in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
  18. 9. “Falling into Philistine Hands”: Swinburne’s Transgressive Correspondence
  19. 10. Arnold’s Irony and the Deployment of Dandyism
  20. 11. Salome: Re/Dressing Wilde on the Rim
  21. 12. The Laugh of the New Woman
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index