Introduction
James S. Whitehead
Reading Humour: Anecdotes, Satires, and Polemic
1. Between Joke and Story: The Rise of the Humorous Anecdote in the Nineteenth Century
Matthew Kaiser
2. The “Wittiest Woman”: Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany
Julie Donovan
3. Margaret Oliphant’s Experiment of Humour: Miss Marjoribanks as the “Satirist’s Collection”
Christina Jen
4. Play-fighting: The Humour of Polemic in Matthew Arnold’s Criticism
Samuel Webb
Viewing Humour: Pictorial Parodies, Periodicals, and Performances
5. “Parody… the Muse with Her Tongue in Cheek”: The Collected Poems of Oscuro Wildegoose
Anne Anderson
6. The Humour of Punch: Thomas Hardy and New Imperialism
James S. Whitehead
7. “You Can’t Stop A Girl From Thinking”: The Press, the Censor and Moral Ambiguity in Women’s Comic Performances on the Victorian Music Hall
Sam Beale
Blending Humour: Experimental, Culinary, and Intermedial
8. Water-tigers, Jam-pots, and “Ye Mikroskopiker’s Arms”: Boundary-work and Boundary Objects in Comic Microscopy
Meegan Kennedy
9. “(O! horror) ‘crumb chops!’”: Humour and Identity-Making in Late Victorian Anglo-Indian Cookbooks
Yi-Chen Andrea Lay
10. From Incongruity to Intercongruity: Christina Rossetti’s Humorous Intermedia
Mou-Lan Wong
Biography
Mou-Lan Wong is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
James S. Whitehead is former Headteacher and Director of Education for Rugby School Global.
