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Neo-Victorian humour : comic subversions and unlaughter in contemporary historical re-visions /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Neo-Victorian series ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; What's So Funny about the Nineteenth Century?; Part 1: Humour and Metanarratives; 1 Parody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction; 2 Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars; 3 "Bleak Hilarity" in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; 4 Drainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale's Sweet Thames; Part 2: Humour and Gender.
- 5 Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter6 Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour; 7 Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm, and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism; 8 "People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical": Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics; Part 3: Humour and Postmodernism; 9 "Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!": The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony; 10 Camp Heritage: Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Spectacle.
- 11 Laughing (at) Freaks: "Bending the tune to her will" in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland's The Palace of Curiosities12 The Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur; Index.