The Idler's club : humour and mass readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P.G. Wodehouse

The Idler's club : humour and mass readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P.G. Wodehouse /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiss, Laura Kasson (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Series:Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > Periodicals.
English periodicals > History > 19th century.
Clubs in literature.
Social mobility > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Club Chatter, Gossip and Smoking: The `Idler's Club' Column as a Reader's Space
  • 2. Pressroom and the Clubroom: Working Women and Idling Men in Jerome K. Jerome's Tommy and Co.
  • 3. Club Story and Social Mobility: Rules for Readers in Israel Zangwill and Barry Pain
  • 4. Mysteries of Male Friendship: Uncovering the Club in Stevenson, Doyle, Chesterton and Sayers
  • 5. Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness
  • 6. Idlers and Drones: P. G. Wodehouse and Twentieth-Century Class Confusion.

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