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Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : New york : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3547061
Author : E. N. O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977085393
Humorist's Wife - What in the world are you sending all these jokes to the Daily Blowhard for? They are as old as the hills.Humorist - Yes, my dear; but the editor who selects the humorous matter for that paper is a young fellow just out of college, and they'll be all new to him.Chuckle! Guffaw! Indulge! Enjoy this delightful collection of Victorian-era jokes. Originally printed in American newspapers circa the late 1800s, these feel-good jokes and witticisms will leave you smiling.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004336612
Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.
Author : Louise Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137578822
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.
Author : Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351790529
This title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.
Author : Robert M. Polhemus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226673219
"Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to undermine the dogma and institutions of religion and to put faith instead of the existence of the comic perspective. Comic Faith is a virtuoso performance of impressive stature; I suspect the book will be influential for many years to come."—John Halperin, Modern Fiction Studies
Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349174584
Author : Louis J. Budd,Edwin Harrison Cady
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822307596
This volume in The Best from American Literature series presents articles and profiles the evolution of literary opinion and the shifts of critical emphasis. Beginning with an analysis of science in the thought of Mark Twain, the volume examines his indebtedness to literary comedians, such as George Horatio Derby, better known as John Phoenix; his contributions to the traditions of Southwestern humor; and how he employed images of endangered families. Other topics include: Twain as translator from the German; the composition and structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; the style of Huckleberry Finn; his first and only novel about a young girl, Joan of Arc; the four roles into which he cast Satan; the probable meaning of A Connecticut Yankee; and a thematic analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50.
Author : Victoria Fremont,Larry Daste
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486413693
When is a car not a car? When it turns into a driveway. Why was the math book so sad? It had too many problems. Jokesters from 8 to 80 will love regaling friends and relatives with these and 58 other zany teeth-gritters. Accompanied by Larry Daste's amusing illustrations.
Author : Matthew Kaiser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804778947
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
Author : John William Hey Atkins
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513279022
A decade after their wild boat ride adventure on the Thames river, J, Harris, and George reunite for another vacation. Older, richer, and fatter, but not wiser, the three men stumble through mishaps and surprises as they journey to Germany. First saying their goodbyes, J and Harris seek the approval of their wives, worried about leaving their kids. Their wives are supportive, secretly considering their husbands’ trip from home as a vacation for themselves as well. Still a bachelor, George tells his aunt about the trip before they depart. First arriving in a boat, the men journey through Germany, stopping in Hamburg, Hanover, and Berlin. When they are able, they stay in hotels and inns, and when they are desperate, the sleep in the barns of kind farmers. After a long journey, the men finally arrive at their destination. Planning on completing a cycling tour through the German Black Forest, the men take a single rider and a tandem bicycle, making a solemn compromise to take turns being the solo rider. As they set out on their bike ride, the friends are amazed by the beauty and serenity of the forest, until they start to realize that everything looks familiar. Lost in the woods and going in circles, the three men must find a way home from their adventure before they get caught in the impending rain storm. Through sketches and detailed observations, Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men on the Bummel provides a fascinating perspective on the landscape and culture of 20th century Germany. With drunken adventures, sword fights, and misfortunate weather, Three Men on the Bummel is an exciting and charming travelogue, humorous and enjoyable even for modern audiences. This edition of Three Men on the Bumel by Jerome K. Jerome is presented in an easy-to-read font and features an eye-catching new cover design. With these accommodations, this edition is accessible and appealing to contemporary audiences, restoring Jerome K Jerome’s work to modern standards while preserving the original wit and charm of Three Men on the Bummel.
Author : Jon Roeckelein
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : UOM:39015054274207
Annotation Provides a current and comprehensive review of the literature on humor in psychology, gives terminological distinctions, traces the evolution of humor, and explains theoretical and methodological aspects of humor.
Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349051090
Author : Ciaran Cronin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405123181
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter