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New Humour and Masculinity at the Fin de Siècle



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This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions of manliness. Accused by their critics of lowness and inconsequentiality, these works act as literary mediations of a lower middle-class urban masculinity, revolving around ideas of office work, urban modernity, and adventure narratives. This will be situated in the context of white-collar work at the end of the century, and competing ideas of the urban man and mass. The book argues that a quartet of New Humour writers, Jerome K. Jerome, Israel Zangwill, Barry Pain, and Robert Barr, formed a coherent creative group whose fiction acknowledges and subverts stereotypes about clerks and urban enervation ,evokes and mocks ideas of adventure and imperial masculinity, and engages with the nature and function of humour. It looks at how ideas of mechanicality, from Henri Bergson, allow us to examine how humour articulates Victorian definitions and redefinitions of manliness. New Humour works as a crucial focal point for intersecting fin de siècle ideas of masculinity, class and national fitness. This work demonstrates that the literature of the New Humourists examines wider intersecting concerns clustering around ideas of masculinity. In doing so, this study complicates and re-defines how we should look at Victorian conceptions of gender and humour.
Pages
225 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2026-01-14
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783032089724
EAN PDF
9783032089731
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2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
10107 Ko
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Prix
137,14 €
EAN EPUB
9783032089731
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
6185 Ko
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Prix
137,14 €

David A. Ibitson is a Teaching Fellow in Arts and Humanities at the Lifelong Learning Centre, University of Leeds, UK. He has written on Jerome K. Jerome, music hall culture, Victorian youth programmes,1830s Newgate novels, the ghost stories of M.R. James, office work and nineteenth-century gothic literature. Current research interests include Humour and the city and fin de siècle Gothic narratives of work. His teaching specialisms are in Victorian and Edwardian popular literature, Gothic literature, masculinity, and modernity.

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