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What's So Funny about the Nineteenth Century?

Marie-luise Kohlke Orcid Logo

Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions, Pages: 1 - 43

Swansea University Author: Marie-luise Kohlke Orcid Logo

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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
ISBN: 9789004336605 9789004336612
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands Brill / Rodopi 2017
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