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| Author | : Anonim |
| File Size | : 40,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 06 June 2017 |
| ISBN | : 9789004336612 |
| Pages | : 362 pages |
Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.
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