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Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions
Marie-luise Kohlke 
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Christian Gutleben
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Christian Gutleben
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
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Abstract
This volume explores the range of neo-Victorian humour from the ludic to the obscene and grotesque across a variety of media, including fiction, drama, film, fashion, and graphic novels. It demonstrates that humour plays an integral and significant role in the neo-Victorian project of re-visioning t...
| ISBN: | 9789004336605 9789004336612 |
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| ISSN: | 2211-1018 9789004336612 |
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Leiden & Boston
Brill/Rodopi
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33937 |
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| Abstract: |
This volume explores the range of neo-Victorian humour from the ludic to the obscene and grotesque across a variety of media, including fiction, drama, film, fashion, and graphic novels. It demonstrates that humour plays an integral and significant role in the neo-Victorian project of re-visioning the nineteenth century and contesting its socio-cultural legacies in the present. |
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| Item Description: |
Neo-Victorian Series, vol. 5 |
| Keywords: |
complicity, contestation, ethics, humour, neo-Victorian, post-ethics, unlaughter, subversion, English fiction 20th century - History and criticism, black humour, arts Victorian influence, comic in literature. |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |