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Highlighting neo-Victorian humour's crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.

Produktbeschreibung
Highlighting neo-Victorian humour's crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.
Autorenporträt
Marie-Luise Kohlke, Ph.D. (2000) is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University and General/Founding Editor of Neo-Victorian Studies (http: //www.neovictorianstudies.com/). Besides her series co-editorship of Brill - Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, she has published numerous chapters and articles, most recently in Victoriographies. Christian Gutleben, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of English literature at the university of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) where he is also the chief editor of the journal Cycnos. He has published several monographs and many papers on contemporary fiction and film and is the series co-editor of Brill - Rodopis's Neo-Victorian Series.