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The Language of Humour

The Language of Humour:* examines the importance of the social context for humour* explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy and stand-up comedy* includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson and Peter Cook

By Alison Ross

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Hardcover:

9781138136533 | Routledge, November 24, 2015, cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9780415169127 | Routledge, April 1, 1998, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The Language of Humour:* examines the importance of the social context for humour* explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy and stand-up comedy* includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson and Peter Cook

Miscellaneous:

9780203984567 | Routledge, February 26, 1998, cover price $26.95

Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a "Good" Sense of Humour

Product Description: Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts...read more

By Sam Friedman

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9780415855037, titled "Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour" | Routledge, April 30, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

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9781138125902, titled "Comedy and Distinction: The Cultural Currency of a âgoodâ Sense of Humour" | Routledge, September 16, 2015, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries.

Poetry and Humour from Cowper to Clough

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By Mark Storey

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9780847661336 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.

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9781349032440 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $59.99

Toward a Theogy of Anglo-Saxon Humor: Old English Riddles, Poetry, Prose, and Illuminations

By E. L. Risden

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9780773443006 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $199.95

Arguments of Augustan Wit

Product Description: Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit. The arguments of Augustan wit reveal preoccupations with the metaphorical dimension of language so distrusted by Locke and others who saw it as fundamentally opposed to the rational mode of judgement...read more

By John Sitter

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9780521411202 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $57.99 | About this edition: Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit.

Paperback:

9780521044554 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 8, 2007, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the allusive and elusive word play of Augustan wit.

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour

Product Description: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century collects a series of engaging lectures by W. M. Thackeray on Swift, Pope, Fielding, and others---offering a rare look at this classic author's views of his forbearers. The lectures and the final essay Charity and Humour were written for an American audience (the latter published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in June 1853) and showcase Thackeray's views of American sensibilities...read more

By Edgar F. Harden (editor) and Peter L. Shillingsburg (editor)

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9780472116126 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 11, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century collects a series of engaging lectures by W.

Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Work

Product Description: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic. In this book that topic is approached via a number of practical joke episodes, some of them well known - the deceptions Hal and Poins practice on Falstaff, the tricking of Malvolio or Parolles - the others a little less so (the "Induction" to The Taming of the Shrew, for example)...read more

By David Ellis

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9780838756805 | Bucknell Univ Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.

9781611482829 | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.

National Joke: Popular Comedy And English Cultural Identity

Product Description: Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and contemporary sitcoms such as The Royle Family, and from George Formby to Alan Bennett and Roy 'Chubby' Brown...read more

By Andy Medhurst

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9780415168779 | Routledge, January 30, 2008, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves.

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9780415168786 | Routledge, November 5, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves.

English Humour

Product Description: English Humour Originally published in 1929 as part of the English Heritage Series, this is a fascinating book charting the progression of English humour - from great writers to Great Illustrators Priestley, the great English novelist, analyzes different facets of English humor from Chaucer, Chesterton, Shakespeare, Gilbert, et al...read more

By J. B. Priestley

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9780812820935 | Stein & Day Pub, December 1, 1976, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The English novelist analyzes the writers, actors, and artists who have made his countrymen chuckle since the time of Chaucer

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9781846649790 | Obscure Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $33.45 | About this edition: English Humour Originally published in 1929 as part of the English Heritage Series, this is a fascinating book charting the progression of English humour - from great writers to Great Illustrators Priestley, the great English novelist, analyzes different facets of English humor from Chaucer, Chesterton, Shakespeare, Gilbert, et al.

Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama

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By Darl Larsen and William Proctor Williams (foreword by)

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9780786415045 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

Merry Wives and Others: A History of Domestic Humor Writing

Product Description: In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century. For many years, domestic humor was written primarily by females; significant contributions from male writers began as times and family structures changed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bartholomew Bland and Penelope Fritzer

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9780786413058 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twentieth century.

A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s

Product Description: A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s. From there it is a short trip to the coffee bars of London, where the appearance of a scruffy yellow pamphlet calling itself Private Eye overturned the way Britons looked at their world...read more

By Humphrey Carpenter

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9781586480813 | 1st edition (Public Affairs, April 1, 2002), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: What Jonathan Miller, one of its high priests, calls a "peculiar episode in British cultural history" provides rich material for Carpenter to dig into.

Paperback:

9780306812057 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, May 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s.

Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England

Product Description: MIRTH MAKING examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which writers of rhetoric and courtesy manuals during the English Renaissance counseled their readers on the powers and hazards of jesting. Shedding light on a subject largely neglected by contemporary scholars, Holcomb's pathbreaking study demonstrates how such humor-related advice points to and participates in broader cultural phenomena - most notably the era's increase in social and geographic mobility and the contest between authority and subversion...read more

By Chris Holcomb

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9781570033971 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: MIRTH MAKING examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which writers of rhetoric and courtesy manuals during the English Renaissance counseled their readers on the powers and hazards of jesting.

Comedy After Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford

Product Description: Is comedy postmodern?Kirby Olson posits that no one has been more marginalized than the comic writer, whose irreverent truths have always made others uncomfortable. In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kirby Olson

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9780896724402 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Is comedy postmodern?

That Was Satire That Was: The Satire Boom of the 1960s

By Humphrey Carpenter

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9780575065888 | Victor Gollancz, January 1, 2001, cover price $35.00

Max Beerbohm's Mischievous Wit: A Literary Entertainment

Product Description: Book by Riewald, J. G.

By J. G. Riewald

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9789023234814 | Van Gorcum Ltd, October 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Book by Riewald, J.

Humor in Anglo-Saxon Literature

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By Jonathan Wilcox (editor)

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9780859915762 | Ds Brewer, May 1, 2000, cover price $99.00

The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives

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By Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (editor)

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9780754600169 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $120.00

Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry

Product Description: James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style--metaphysical wit and strong lines--as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Biester

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9780801433139 | Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $63.95 | About this edition: James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style--metaphysical wit and strong lines--as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder.

The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers

By Theresa O'Connor (editor)

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9780813014579 | Univ Pr of Florida, December 1, 1996, cover price $59.95

Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit: Ideologies of Self Consciousness in Dunton, D'Urfey, and Sterne

Product Description: Despite the prominence given to it recently by Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye, Menippean satire remains a neglected and misunderstood genre. Focusing on the eighteenth-century writers John Dunton, Thomas D'Urfey, and Laurence Sterne, Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit explores the excesses of these eccentric, transgressive writers who take their readers to the limits of language...read more

By Garry Sherbert

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9780820424996 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 1, 1996, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Despite the prominence given to it recently by Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye, Menippean satire remains a neglected and misunderstood genre.

Funny Talk

Product Description: Book by Jim Driver

By Jim Driver (editor)

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9781899344017 | Do Not Pr, December 15, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Jim Driver

The Irish Comic Tradition: The Key Book of Irish Literary Criticism

By Vivian Mercier

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9780285630185 | Souvenir Pr Ltd, December 1, 1995, cover price $13.95

Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature

Product Description: In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy...read more

By Regina Barreca

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9780814321362 | Wayne State Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon.

New Perspectives on Women and Comedy

Product Description: The twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stereotypes between the genders. Examples from literature and the performing arts deal with humor and violence, humor and disability, humor and the supposition of women's shame, lesbian and ethnic humor and particularly women's responses to men's humor...read more

By Regina Barreca (editor)

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9782881245336 | Gordon & Breach Science Pub, May 1, 1992, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stereotypes between the genders.

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9782881245343 | Gordon & Breach Science Pub, December 1, 1992, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: The twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stereotypes between the genders.

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