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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