Victorian Comedy and Laughter

1.Introduction:Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, ''Laughter & Conviviality''. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, ''Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens''s Pantomime Violence''. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, ''Edward Lear''s Travels in Nonsense and Europe''.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, ''"Capital Company": Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain''.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, ''George Eliot''s Jokes''.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, ''The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown''s Gag-book and Circus Performance''. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, ''"Sassin'' back": Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences''.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, ''"Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods": Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall''. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, ''Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siècle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall''. - 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, ''What was New about the "New Humour"?: Barry Pain''s "Divine Carelessness"''. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, ''Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde''s "Pen, Pencil and Poison"