Description
The Victorian Comic Spirit
New Perspectives
Routledge Revivals Series
Author: Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Victorian Comic Spirit:
Keywords
Young Man; Violates; Victorian; Vice Versa; Victorian comedy; HMS Pinafore; history; Man About Town; humour; Savoy Operas; Carolyn Williams; Devious; Patricia Murphy; Sartor Resartus; David Nash; Dense; Patricia Marks; Persona; John S; Batts; Follow; Eileen Gillooly; Haggard’s Text; Joseph H; Gardner; Confer; Abigail Burnham Bloom; Wo; Nicholas Freeman; King Solomon’s Mines; James Najarian; Captain Brown; Rob K; Baum; Dragoon Guards; Margaret D; Stetz; American Humor; Fairy Extravaganza; Heavy Dragoon; Fairy Queen; Swinburne Letters; Artemus Ward; Deborah Jenkyns; Act Ii Finale
Publication date: 11-2019
· 15.3x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2017
· 15.3x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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.