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245	0	0	_aNeo-Victorian humour : _bcomic subversions and unlaughter in contemporary historical re-visions / _cedited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNeo-victorian series ; _vv. 5
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tWhat’s So Funny about the Nineteenth Century? / _rMarie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben -- _tHumour and Metanarratives -- _tParody after Providence: Christianity, Secularism, and the Form of Neo-Victorian Fiction / _rMiriam Elizabeth Burstein -- _tNeo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars / _rMarie-Luise Kohlke -- _t“Bleak Hilarity” in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty / _rDana Shiller -- _tDrainage in a Time of Cholera: History and Humour in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames / _rMichael L. Ross -- _tHumour and Gender -- _tLooking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter / _rMargaret D. Stetz -- _tNeo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour / _rTara MacDonald -- _tGood Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm, and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism / _rMonika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts -- _t“People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics / _rDru Pagliassotti -- _tHumour and Postmodernism -- _t“Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!” The Neo-Victorian Novel-as-Mashup and the Limits of Postmodern Irony / _rMegen de Bruin-Molé -- _tCamp Heritage: Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm as Neo-Victorian Spectacle / _rChristophe Van Eecke -- _tLaughing (at) Freaks: “Bending the tune to her will” in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities / _rSaverio Tomaiuolo -- _tThe Dog Days of Empire: Black Humour and the Bestial in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur / _rRyan D. Fong.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aThis volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. \'This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally.\' - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania , Australia
588			_aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aComic, The, in literature.
650		0	_aArts, Victorian _xInfluence.
650		0	_aBlack humor.
650		0	_aHumor in literature.
650		0	_aSteampunk culture.
700	1		_aKohlke, Marie-Luise.
700	1		_aGutleben, Christian.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tNeo-Victorian humour _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 _z9789004336605 _w(DLC) 2016057673
830		0	_aNeo-Victorian Series _v5.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328075.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004336612
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