TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colletta,Lisa
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel
AV  - PR888.H85 C65 2003eb
U1  - 823/.9109355 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Humorous stories, English
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Satire, English
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Black humor
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135466
ER  -