Neo-Victorian humour : comic subversions and unlaughter in contemporary historical re-visions / / edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.
This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological...
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| Superior document: | Neo-Victorian Series, Volume 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Neo-Victorian series ;
Volume 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- What’s So Funny about the Nineteenth Century? / Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
- Humour and Metanarratives
- Parody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
- Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars / Marie-Luise Kohlke
- “Bleak Hilarity” in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty / Dana Shiller
- Drainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames / Michael L. Ross
- Humour and Gender
- Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter / Margaret D. Stetz
- Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour / Tara MacDonald
- Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm, and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism / Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts
- “People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics / Dru Pagliassotti
- Humour and Postmodernism
- “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!” The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony / Megen de Bruin-Molé
- Camp Heritage: Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Spectacle / Christophe Van Eecke
- Laughing (at) Freaks: “Bending the tune to her will” in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities / Saverio Tomaiuolo
- The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur / Ryan D. Fong.