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Dickensian Laughter

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Dickensian Laughter

By Malcolm Andrews

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About the book

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared that: 'His leading quality was Humour.' At the end of Dickens's career he was acclaimed as 'the greatest English Humourist since Shakespeare's time.' In 1971 the critic PhilipCollins surveyed recent decades of ...Show more

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9780198728047

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2016

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Dickensian Laughter

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