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

by Laura Kasson Fiss

Poking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474497144
• ISBN13: 9781474497145
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"