Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour

by Malcolm Andrews

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humor? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared that " Dickens's] leading quality was Humor."' At the end of Dickens's career he was acclaimed as "the greatest English Humorist since Shakespeare's time." In 1971...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198728042
• ISBN13: 9780198728047
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"