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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse

The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse

Fiss, Laura

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474497144
ISBN13: 9781474497145
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 10 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibility. Their humorous, fictional clubs aided the social mobility of the authors who created them, who in turn served as models for the readers who might never cross the literal thresholds of Clubland.

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