The Idler's Club : : Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse / / Laura Fiss.
Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubsFocuses on Victorian humour, a subject that is undergoing a renaissancePrimary sources are mainly published literary works, both periodicals and booksConnects, biographically and stylistically, figures that have...
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Fiss, Laura, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Idler's Club : Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse / Laura Fiss. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (288 p.) : 9 B/W illustrations 4 B/W line art 9 black and white illustrations and 2 figures and 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining Clubland -- 1 Club Chatter, Gossip and Smoking: The ‘Idler’s Club’ Column as a Reader’s Space -- 2 The Pressroom and the Clubroom: Working Women and Idling Men in Jerome K. Jerome’s Tommy and Co -- 3 The Club Story and Social Mobility: Rules for Readers in Israel Zangwill and Barry Pain -- 4 The Mysteries of Male Friendship: Uncovering the Club in Stevenson, Doyle, Chesterton and Sayers -- 5 Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness -- 6 Idlers and Drones: P. G. Wodehouse and Twentieth-Century Class Confusion -- Conclusion: Mass Readership, Then and Now -- Appendix: The Numbers on Women in the ‘Idler’s Club’ -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubsFocuses on Victorian humour, a subject that is undergoing a renaissancePrimary sources are mainly published literary works, both periodicals and booksConnects, biographically and stylistically, figures that have developed disparate reputationsTreats well-known, yet under-studied, popular authors: Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse especiallyTreats lesser-known or lesser-studied works by authors who attract more critical attention: J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson and Israel ZangwillIntroduces humour into the discussion of feelings about readingPoking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibility. Their humorous, fictional clubs aided the social mobility of the authors who created them, who in turn served as models for the readers who might never cross the literal thresholds of Clubland. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English 9783111319186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 9783111318264 ZDB-23-DSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110797640 print 9781474497145 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474497169 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474497169 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474497169/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining Clubland -- 1 Club Chatter, Gossip and Smoking: The ‘Idler’s Club’ Column as a Reader’s Space -- 2 The Pressroom and the Clubroom: Working Women and Idling Men in Jerome K. Jerome’s Tommy and Co -- 3 The Club Story and Social Mobility: Rules for Readers in Israel Zangwill and Barry Pain -- 4 The Mysteries of Male Friendship: Uncovering the Club in Stevenson, Doyle, Chesterton and Sayers -- 5 Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness -- 6 Idlers and Drones: P. G. Wodehouse and Twentieth-Century Class Confusion -- Conclusion: Mass Readership, Then and Now -- Appendix: The Numbers on Women in the ‘Idler’s Club’ -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining Clubland -- 1 Club Chatter, Gossip and Smoking: The ‘Idler’s Club’ Column as a Reader’s Space -- 2 The Pressroom and the Clubroom: Working Women and Idling Men in Jerome K. Jerome’s Tommy and Co -- 3 The Club Story and Social Mobility: Rules for Readers in Israel Zangwill and Barry Pain -- 4 The Mysteries of Male Friendship: Uncovering the Club in Stevenson, Doyle, Chesterton and Sayers -- 5 Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness -- 6 Idlers and Drones: P. G. Wodehouse and Twentieth-Century Class Confusion -- Conclusion: Mass Readership, Then and Now -- Appendix: The Numbers on Women in the ‘Idler’s Club’ -- Bibliography -- Index |
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