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Comic faith : the great tradition from Austen to Joyce

Title
Comic faith : the great tradition from Austen to Joyce / Robert M. Polhemus.
Author
Polhemus, Robert M.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

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Description
x, 398 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941 > Religion
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941 > Humor
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941
  • Andrae, A
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1800-1940
  • Geschichte 1816-1939
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Christian fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Comic, The, in literature
  • Religion in literature
  • Comic, The
  • Religion in literature
  • Comic, The
  • Christian fiction, English
  • Comic, The, in literature
  • English fiction
  • Religion
  • Englisch
  • Komik
  • Satire
  • Roman
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Wit and Humor.
  • humor.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Humor
  • Humor.
  • Humour.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 359-391.
Contents
Introduction : Worlds without end -- Austen's Emma (1816) : the comedy of union -- Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (1818) : comic communion -- Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) : the comedy of expression -- Thackeray's Vanity fair (1847-48) : the comedy of shifting perspectives -- Trollope's Barchester Towers (1857) : comic reformation -- Meredith"s The egoist (1879) : the comedy of egoism -- Carroll's Through the looking glass (1871) : the comedy of regression -- Joyce's Finnegans wake (1924-25) : the comic gospel of "Shem."
ISBN
  • 0226673200
  • 9780226673202
LCCN
  • 79024856
  • 5133896
OCLC
  • ocm05726631
  • 5726631
  • SCSB-21998
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library