Colletta, Lisa.
Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel [electronic resource] / by Lisa Colletta. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 154 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Humorous stories, English--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Satire, English--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Social problems in literature.
Black humor.
Electronic books.
PR888.H85 / C65 2003eb
823/.9109355
Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel [electronic resource] / by Lisa Colletta. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 154 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Humorous stories, English--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Satire, English--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Social problems in literature.
Black humor.
Electronic books.
PR888.H85 / C65 2003eb
823/.9109355