{"product_id":"victorian-comedy-and-laughter-conviviality-jokes-and-dissent-9781137578815","title":"Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Louise Lee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sparkling collection -- at once authoritative and intrepid. Louise Lee has assembled a remarkable set of essays, shedding fresh light on the many lives of comedy at work and play in nineteenth-century culture (from poetry to fiction, circus to music hall, and beyond). This volume is a welcome contribution to Victorian studies; but, more importantly, it's a reminder--in Lee's words--that \"laughter is good to think with.\"'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Matthew Bevis, University of Oxford \u0026amp; author of \u003ci\u003eWordsworth's Fun\u003c\/i\u003e (2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. \u003ci\u003eVictorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJokes and Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethree consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecrucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eform. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eculture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke -- both on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe page and the stage -- while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimpassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45277421404311,"sku":"9781137578815","price":9548.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781137578815.webp?v=1769288323","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/victorian-comedy-and-laughter-conviviality-jokes-and-dissent-9781137578815","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}