Victorian Comedy and Laughter

1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, 'Laughter & Conviviality'. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, 'Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens's Pantomime Violence'. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, 'Edward Lear's Travels in Nonsense and Europe'.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, '"Capital Company": Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain'.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, 'George Eliot's Jokes'.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, 'The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown's Gag-book and Circus Performance'. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, '"Sassin' back": Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences'.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, '"Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods": Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall'. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, 'Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siecle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall'. - 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, 'What was New about the "New Humour"?: Barry Pain's "Divine Carelessness"'. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, 'Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde's "Pen, Pencil and Poison"

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• Estudos teatrais
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• História social e cultural

fin-de-siecle humour;Victorian comedy;Comedic writing;Victorian humour;Comedy of pain;Oscar Wilde;George Eliot;Charles Dickens;British and Irish Literature