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    <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Lisa Colletta.</note>
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  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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