LEADER 02711nam 2200433 a 450 001 9910781972103321 005 20230725053748.0 010 $a1-283-32203-X 010 $a9786613322036 010 $a1-4411-3248-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062200 035 $a(EBL)797501 035 $a(OCoLC)767825699 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC797501 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062200 100 $a20111206d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe comic mode in English literature$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Middle Ages to today /$fMurray Roston 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-1231-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction; 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 Boat 327 $aThe 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 330 $a 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 Emma 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComedy$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComedy$xHistory and criticism. 700 $aRoston$b Murray$0193319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781972103321 996 $aThe comic mode in English literature$93719832 997 $aUNINA