Dickensian laughter: essays on Dickens and humour
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1. Opening a Fresh Vein of Humour 1
2. Staging Comic Anecdotes 25
3. Comae Timing 50
4. Laughter and Incongruity 77
5. Falling Apart Laughing 99
6. Laughter and Laughers in Dickerus 124
7. What Made Dickens Laugh? 149
Afterword: Dickensian Laughter in a Popular Dark Age 173
List of Abbreviations 179
Notes 180
Index 192
Dickensian LaugOer
Charles Dickens’s ‘leading quality was Humour’: so declared his friend
and biographer, John Forster. Dickens was acclaimed (in 1870, the year of
his death) as ‘the greatest English Humourist since Shakespeare’s time’.
How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character
of Dickensian laughter? These are the questions explored in this book on a
topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half
century.
In 1971 the critic Philip Collins surveyed recent decades of Dickens criti-
cism and asked ‘from how many discussions of Dickens in the learned
journals would one ever guess that (as Dickens himself thought) humour was
his leading quality, his highest faculty ?’ Forty years later, that rhetorical
question has lost none of its force. Why? Perhaps Dickens s genius as a
humourist is simply taken for granted, and critics prefer to turn to his other
achievements; or perhaps humour is too hard to analyse without spoiling
the fun? Whatever the reason, there has been very litdc by way of sustained
critical investigation into what for most people has constituted Dickens s
special claim to greatness.
This book is framed as a series of essays examining and reflecting on
Dickens’s techniques for making us Laugh. How is it that some written inci-
dent, or speech, or narrative ‘aside’ can fire off the page into the reader s
consciousness and jolt him or her into a smile, a giggle, or a hearty laugh?
That is the core question here. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, was
acclaimed at the time as having ‘opened a fresh vein of humour’ in English
literature: what was the social nature of the humour that estabhshrd this
trademark ‘Dickensian’ method of making people laugh? And how many
kinds of laughter are there in Dickens? What made Dickens himself laugh?
Victorian and contemporary theories of laughter can provide useful insights
into these processes—incongruity theory or the ‘relief theory of laughter,
Laughter’s contagiousness (laughter as a ‘social glue’), the art of comic tim-
ing, the neuroscience of laughter. These and other ideas are brought into
play in this study, which considers not only Dickens s novels but also his
letters and journalism. To that end there are copious quotations. The aim
of the book is to make readers laugh and also to prompt them to reflect
their laughter. It should have an interest not only for Dickensians but for
anyone curious about the nature of laughter and how it is triggered.
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