Louise Lee is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

• 1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ‘Laughter & Conviviality’. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ‘Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence’. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ‘Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe’.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ‘“Capital Company”: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain’.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ‘George Eliot’s Jokes’.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ‘The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-book and Circus Performance’. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ‘“Sassin’ back”: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences’.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ‘“Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods”: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall’. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ‘Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall’.- 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ‘What was New about the “New Humour”?: Barry Pain’s “Divine Carelessness”’. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ‘Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s “Pen, Pencil and Poison”

“This volume is an enjoyable read and a comfortable entry point into the field of Victorian comedy and laughter, both for those familiar with the subject and for those new to it. I hope that readers of Victorian Studies will take up its invitation. … this book will furnish you with conviviality, jokes, and just the right amount of dissent.” (Laura Kasson Fiss, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)

Louise Lee is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

• 1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ‘Laughter & Conviviality’. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ‘Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence’. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ‘Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe’.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ‘“Capital Company”: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain’.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ‘George Eliot’s Jokes’.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ‘The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-book and Circus Performance’. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ‘“Sassin’ back”: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences’.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ‘“Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods”: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall’. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ‘Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall’.- 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ‘What was New about the “New Humour”?: Barry Pain’s “Divine Carelessness”’. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ‘Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s “Pen, Pencil and Poison”

“This volume is an enjoyable read and a comfortable entry point into the field of Victorian comedy and laughter, both for those familiar with the subject and for those new to it. I hope that readers of Victorian Studies will take up its invitation. … this book will furnish you with conviviality, jokes, and just the right amount of dissent.” (Laura Kasson Fiss, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)

Louise Lee is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

• 1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ‘Laughter & Conviviality’. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ‘Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violence’. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ‘Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europe’.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ‘“Capital Company”: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain’.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ‘George Eliot’s Jokes’.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ‘The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-book and Circus Performance’. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ‘“Sassin’ back”: Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences’.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ‘“Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods”: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall’. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ‘Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall’.- 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ‘What was New about the “New Humour”?: Barry Pain’s “Divine Carelessness”’. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ‘Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde’s “Pen, Pencil and Poison”

“This volume is an enjoyable read and a comfortable entry point into the field of Victorian comedy and laughter, both for those familiar with the subject and for those new to it. I hope that readers of Victorian Studies will take up its invitation. … this book will furnish you with conviviality, jokes, and just the right amount of dissent.” (Laura Kasson Fiss, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)