The Idler's Club : Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiss, Laura.

Series:

Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clubs in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--Periodicals.

English periodicals--History--19th century.

English periodicals.

Social mobility--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social mobility.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Imagining Clubland

1 Club Chatter, Gossip and Smoking: The ‘Idler’s Club’ Column as a Reader’s Space

2 The Pressroom and the Clubroom: Working Women and Idling Men in Jerome K. Jerome’s Tommy and Co

3 The Club Story and Social Mobility: Rules for Readers in Israel Zangwill and Barry Pain

4 The 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

Conclusion: Mass Readership, Then and Now

Appendix: The Numbers on Women in the ‘Idler’s Club’

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Fiss, Laura The Idler's Club

ISBN:

9781474497176

1474497179

9781474497169

1474497160

OCLC:

1356959995