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Author:   Glynnis Cox
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032727110

ISBN 10:   103272711
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   27 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface Dedication List of Illustrations Introduction - Victorian Humor · Their Laughter, Our Laughter · A Place for Shared Laughter · Current Humor Scholarship · Nineteenth-Century Incongruity · Humor and the Victorian Novel · Bibliography Chapter One - A History of the Comic and Humor · Pre-Modern Views of the Comic and a “Changed Intellectual Habitus” · From Typology to Personality · Moral Theory, Sentiment, and Ridicule in the Eighteenth-Century · The Romantic Imagination, Pathos, and Humor · The Character of Victorian Humor · Conclusion · Bibliography Chapter Two - Patterns of Attention · Introducing Humor: Dickens’ Christmas Carol, and Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island · Victorian Realism and Accurate Eccentrics: Collins’ The Moonstone · Victorian Manners and Recognizable Eccentrics: Trollope’s Orley Farm and Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters · Conclusion · Bibliography Chapter Three - Narration · The Interpretive Implications of Intimacy: Gaskell’s Cranford and Thackeray’s “A Little Dinner at Timmins’s” · Dual-Focalization and Characterizing the First-Person Narrator: Dickens’ Great Expectations · Rhetorical Irony, Romantic Irony, and the Narrator: Bulwer-Lytton’s Pelham · Humorous Narratorial Presence: Eliot’s Middlemarch · An Avatar of Benevolence: Dickens’ Pickwick · Conclusion · Bibliography Chapter Four - Characters · Peripheral Figures: The Immortality of Micawber · Satiric Anti-Heroines: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Frances Trollope’s Widow Barnaby, and Meredith’s Evan Harrington · Humorous Heroines: Dickens’ David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend, Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks and Phoebe Junior, and Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles and The Prime Minister · Conclusion · Bibliography Chapter Five - Persuasion · Novel Religious Priorities: Trollope’s Rachel Ray, Eliot’s “The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton”, and Oliphant’s “The Rector” · Humorous Extremes and Humorous Mediation: Dickens’ Hard Times and Trollope’s The Warden · Conclusion · Bibliography Conclusion - A Changing Character · A Convivial Invitation · Bibliography Index

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Glynnis Cox is a recent graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where she served as graduate coordinator for the James Tait Black prize in fiction and biography and was a recipient of a Saltire Foundation scholarship. She is an independent scholar.

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