The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Laura Kasson FissSeries:Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian CulturesPublish date:2024-11-30Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474497152ISBN-10:1474497152UPC:9781474497152Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Humor, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCN32AN1CG
The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse
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...
Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474497152ISBN-10:1474497152UPC:9781474497152Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Humor, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCN32AN1CG
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