Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent 1st Edition Louise Lee

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• ISBN 10: 1137578823
• ISBN 13: 9781137578822
• Author:  Louise Lee

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.

Table contents:

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

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