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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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