Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour

Author:   Malcolm Andrews (Emeritus Professor, University of Kent)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199651597


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 September 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   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:  

9780199651597


ISBN 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
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Table of Contents

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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...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


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Malcolm 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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