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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 Dream
•Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
•Austen’s Emma
•Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers
•Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
•Amis’s Lucky Jim

Covering poetry, prose and drama, this comprehensive guide will be essential reading for students of comic writing, literary history and genre.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Late Medieval i. The Second Shepherds’ Play ii. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales iii. Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece 3. The Renaissance i. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ii. Falstaff iii. Donne, ‘The Flea’ iv. Marvell, ‘The Garden’ 4. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century i. Restoration Comedy ii. Pope, ‘The Rape of the Lock’ iii. The Vogue of Sentiment iv. Sterne, Tristram Shandy 5. Nineteenth Century i. Austen, Emma ii. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers iii. Poking Fun at the Establishment iv. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest v. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat 6. Twentieth Century i. George Bernard Shaw ii. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm iii. Beckett, Waiting for Godot iv. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim v. Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man vi. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary Bibliography Index.