Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse
by Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse
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Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibility. Their humorous, fictional clubs aided the social mobility of the authors who created them, who in turn served as models for the readers who might never cross the literal thresholds of Clubland.
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- Edinburgh University Pres Brand
- Nov 30, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781474497152 ISBN-13:
- 1474497152 ISBN-10:
- 288.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9.21 in * 0.61 in * 6.14 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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