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Victorian Comedy and Laughter

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Victorian Comedy and Laughter—Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent
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    Chapter 2 Laughter and Conviviality
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    Chapter 3 Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence
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    Chapter 4 Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe
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    Chapter 5 ‘Capital Company’: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain
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    Chapter 6 George Eliot’s Jokes
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    Chapter 7 The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-Book and Circus Performance
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    Chapter 8 ‘Sassin’ Back’: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences
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    Chapter 9 ‘Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods’: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall
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    Chapter 10 Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall
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    Chapter 11 What Was New About the ‘New Humour’?: Barry Pain’s ‘Divine Carelessness’
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    Chapter 12 Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’
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Chapter title
What Was New About the ‘New Humour’?: Barry Pain’s ‘Divine Carelessness’
Chapter number 11
Book title
Victorian Comedy and Laughter
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2020
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57882-2_11
Book ISBNs
978-1-137-57881-5, 978-1-137-57882-2
Authors

Jonathan Wild, Wild, Jonathan

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