The Victorian Comic Spirit : New Perspectives (Hardcover)

1: Parody, Pastiche, and the Play of Genres: The Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; 2: The Fissure King: Parody, Ideology, and the Imperialist Narrative; 3: Laughing at the Almighty: Freethinking Lampoon, Satire, and Parody in Victorian England; 4: Tipping Mr. Punch “the Haffable Wink”: E. J. Milliken’s Cockney Verse Letters; 5: American Humor: The Mark of Twain on Jerome K. Jerome; 6: Humor as Daughterly Defense in Cranford; 7: Dickens’s Dystopian Metacomedy: Hard Times , Morals, and Religion; 8: Transcendence through Incongruity: The Background of Humor in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus; 9: ‘Tailing into Philistine Hands”: Swinburne’s Transgressive Correspondence; 10: Arnold’s Irony and the Deployment of Dandyism; 11: Salome : Re/Dressing Wilde on the Rim; 12: The Laugh of the New Woman