02711nam 2200433 a 450 991078197210332120230725053748.01-283-32203-X97866133220361-4411-3248-1(CKB)2550000000062200(EBL)797501(OCoLC)767825699(MiAaPQ)EBC797501(EXLCZ)99255000000006220020111206d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||The comic mode in English literature[electronic resource] from the Middle Ages to today /Murray RostonLondon Continuum20111 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-1231-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction; Late Medieval; a) The Second Shepherds' Play; b) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; c) Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece; The Renaissance; a) Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; b) Falstaff; c) Donne, The Flea; d) Marvell, The Garden; The Restoration and Eighteenth Century; a) Restoration Comedy; b) Pope, The Rape of the Lock; c) The Vogue of Sentiment; d) Sterne, Tristram Shandy; The Nineteenth Century; a) Austen, Emma; b) Dickens, The Pickwick Papers; c) Poking Fun at the Establishment; d) Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; e) Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a BoatThe Twentieth Centurya) George Bernard Shaw; b) Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm; c) Beckett, Waiting for Godot; d) Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; e) Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; f) Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary; Notes; Works Cited - on the Comic; Works Cited - General; Index From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, this is a comprehensive guide to comedy in the English literary canon. Beginning with a critical exploration of historical and philosophical theories of humour, the book then supplies close-readings of a wide range of major texts, authors and genres from the Medieval period to the present. The Comic Mode in English Literature examines such texts as: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamPope's The Rape of the LockAusten's EmmaEnglish literatureHistory and criticismComedyHistory and criticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.ComedyHistory and criticism.Roston Murray193319MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781972103321The comic mode in English literature3719832UNINA