Malcolm Andrews

Dickensian Laughter

Essays on Dickens and Humour

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Produktbeschreibung

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? Malcolm Andrews explores these questions in a fascinating study of a neglected area of Dickens studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780198728047
• ISBN-10: 0198728042
• Artikelnr.: 45156284

Autorenporträt

Malcom Andrews is an Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent. He is the editor of the journal The Dickensian and author of a number of books on Dickens, including Dickens and the Grown-Up Child and Charles Dickens and his Performing Selves. Andrews also writes on landscape and literature and painting; this interest is expressed in his books The Search for the Picturesque and Landscape and Western Art. He is married, with three children, and lives in Canterbury, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Opening a Fresh Vein of Humour
2: Staging Comic Anecdotes
3: Comic Timing
4: Laughter and Incongruity
5: Falling Apart Laughing
6: Laughter and Laughers in Dickens
7: What Made Dickens Laugh?
Afterword: Dickensian Laughter in a Popular Dark Age
Endnotes