Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields
within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater
studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the
many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the
earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark
the decades between 1800 and 1920—shifting borders, socioeconomic
upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of
consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by
European and American imperial powers—it is no wonder that people
in the Age of Empire turned to comedy in order to make sense of the
contradictions that structure modern identity and navigate the
sociocultural fault lines within modern life. Comical, humorous,
and satirical cultural artifacts from the period capture the
anxieties and aspirations, the petty resentments and lofty ideals,
of a world buffeted by change. This volume explores the aesthetic,
political, and ethical dimensions of comedy in the context of
blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime,
comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular
novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also
provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social
Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the
meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life. Each
chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis,
identity, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These
eight divergent approaches to comedy in the Age of Empire add up to
an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Cultural Histories Series |
| Release date: |
March 2024 |
| Editors: |
Matthew Kaiser
|
| Series editors: |
Andrew McConnell Stott
• Eric Weitz
|
| Dimensions: |
244 x 169mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Edition: |
NIP |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-44070-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-350-44070-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781350440708 |
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