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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Malcolm Andrews (Emeritus Professor, University of Kent)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.322kg ISBN: 9780199651597ISBN 10: 0199651590 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 19 September 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 EndnotesReviews...the study is plentifully illustrated with some of the funniest passages in Dickens's writing-ranging expertly across novels, letters and journalism. Andrews leaves Dickens to tell his own jokes and then calls our attention to what makes them work. It is enjoyable reading ... His [Andrew's] own generous book has an enthusiasm equally infectious. Daniel Tyler, The Times Literary Supplement Author InformationMalcolm 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |