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Victorian Comedy and Laughter - Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Victorian Comedy and Laughter - Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy
and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth
century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and
Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward
Lear,George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde,
alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little
Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing
three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the
contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how
laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic
form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore
the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while
Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone,Louise Wingrove and
Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke - both
on the page and the stage - while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and
Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and
new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.
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