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Comedy and Culture: England 1820-1900

Comedy and Culture: England 1820-1900

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 437

HumorLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0691643407
ISBN13: 9780691643403
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle class during periods of both rapid cultural change and relative stability.

Originally published in 1980.

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