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What's So Funny about the Nineteenth Century?
Marie-luise Kohlke 
Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions, Pages: 1 - 43
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
Abstract
Theorising the neo-Victorian comic vein through the dominant modes of humour (as superiority and incongruity), this chapter argues that neo-Victorian works employ humour in intrinsically paradoxical ways to foreground both its ethical and unethical dimensions in the service of cultural memory.
| Published in: | Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions |
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| ISBN: | 9789004336605 9789004336612 |
| Published: |
Leiden, The Netherlands
Brill / Rodopi
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36099 |
| Abstract: |
Theorising the neo-Victorian comic vein through the dominant modes of humour (as superiority and incongruity), this chapter argues that neo-Victorian works employ humour in intrinsically paradoxical ways to foreground both its ethical and unethical dimensions in the service of cultural memory. |
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| Keywords: |
comic justice, empathy, ethics, humour, incongruity, metafiction, neo-Victorian, Othering, post-ethics, superiority, symbolic violence, |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
1 |
| End Page: |
43 |