Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel

Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel / by Lisa Colletta.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Colletta, Lisa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Humorous stories, English > History and criticism. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Social satire, English > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Social problems in literature. Black humor.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor
Comic Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud
Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners
The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head
The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.