Titlebook: Victorian Comedy and Laughter; Conviviality, Jokes Louise Lee Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 fin-de-siecle

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Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens’s Pantomime Violenceow Dickens’s writing becomes an insulated space from where he can experiment with slapstick violence and move his reader both mentally and physically in a similar manner to pantomime’s harlequinade. It demonstrates how Dickens’s comedy draws on two key pantomime tropes—clown’s indestructibility and

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Edward Lear’s Travels in Nonsense and Europer’s nonsense poetry and also in his life as a landscape painter. Both in life and nonsense travel offers him an escape from stasis, an imagination of romance, the prospect of new worlds with fewer limits, different rules, unexpected encounters. On the other hand the world of nonsense is in the end a

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‘Capital Company’: Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britaincounted for the creation of jokes: (1) the work of anonymous professional humourists; (2) the observation and comic reinterpretation of real-life incidents; (3) spontaneous wit and (4) the endurance of seemingly ‘eternal’ jokes. Next, it considers how and why jokes were performed at Victorian social

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The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown’s Gag-Book and Circus PerformanceMaterial captured from the clown Tom Lawrence’s gag books reveals a repertoire rich in variety of topic and performance, from misogyny to current affairs, parody and songs, monologues and sketches, gags and interactions with the ringmaster. The material illustrates the complex relationship with the

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‘Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods’: Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hater charts the extent of Tich’s success, highlighting both his financial earnings and a level a fame that saw him adding a word to the English language. It considers hierarchies within popular entertainment, and Tich’s desire to avoid being associated with freak shows, which occupied a lowlier posit

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Laughing Out of Turn: , Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hallards the popular humour of the music hall in pessimistic novels by writers such as George Gissing, gave way to an embrace of verbal comedy in the works of ‘cockney school’ and ‘New Humour’ writers including Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling and William Pett Ridge. This investigation makes the case t

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