Malcolm 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.
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
