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## Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubs * Focuses on Victorian humour, a subject that is undergoing a renaissance * Primary sources are mainly published literary works, both periodicals and books * Connects, biographically and stylistically, figures that have developed disparate reputations * Treats well-known, yet under-studied, popular authors: Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse especially * Treats lesser-known or lesser-studied works by authors who attract more critical attention: J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson and Israel Zangwill * Introduces humour into the discussion of feelings about reading 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 with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibili

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Author

Laura Kasson Fiss

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474497169

Category

nonfiction