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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 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 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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