Humour Across Victoriana (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction??Reading Humour: Anecdotes, Satires, and Polemic??1. Between Joke and Story: The Rise of the Humorous Anecdote in the Nineteenth Century? 2. The “Wittiest Woman”: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in?Bentley’s Miscellany??3. Margaret Oliphant’s Experiment of Humour:?Miss Marjoribanks?as the “Satirist’s Collection”? 4. Play-fighting: The Humour of Polemic in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism??Viewing Humour: Pictorial Parodies, Periodicals, and Performances??5. “Parody… the Muse with Her Tongue in Cheek”: The Collected Poems of?Oscuro Wildegoose??6. The Humour of?Punch: Thomas Hardy and New Imperialism? 7. “You Can’t Stop A Girl From Thinking”: The Press, the Censor and Moral Ambiguity in Women’s Comic Performances on the Victorian Music Hall??Blending Humour: Experimental, Culinary, and Intermedial??8. Water-tigers, Jam-pots, and “Ye Mikroskopiker’s Arms”: Boundary-work and Boundary Objects in Comic Microscopy? 9. “(O! horror) ‘crumb chops!’”: Humour and Identity-Making in Late Victorian Anglo-Indian Cookbooks? 10. From Incongruity to Intercongruity: Christina Rossetti’s Humorous Intermedia