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Victorian Comedy and Laughter
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction: Victorian Comedy and Laughter—Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Laughter and Conviviality
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 ‘Capital Company’: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 George Eliot’s Jokes
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-Book and Circus Performance
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 ‘Sassin’ Back’: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 ‘Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods’: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 What Was New About the ‘New Humour’?: Barry Pain’s ‘Divine Carelessness’
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’