History and Humour: British and American Perspectives (History in Popular Cultures)

One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past. Contents History and Humour Charting the Field The Persistent Regency: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Illustrated Comic Literature Richard Doyle’s Comic Histories: A Victorian Look at the Middle Ages History ›from below‹ Stanley Holloway’s Monologues for the Variety Stage Merrying the Monarch: Charles II in Historical Comedies (1800 to the Present) On Boots, Beef, and Blackadder: The Comic Historiography of the Duke of Wellington We ARE Amused! The Comical Uses and Historical Abuses of Queen Victoria’s Infamous Reproach ›We are not amused‹ The Old World and the New: Negotiating Past, Present, and Future in Anglo-American Humour, 1880-1900 ›There Wont Be Inny Show Tonite‹: Humoring the Returns of Scopic Violence in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus Geoff Hurst’s Ball: Popular Tabloids and Humour on the Dark Side List of Contributors Index Die Faszination am Mythos ist ungebrochen. Globalisierung und Spätkapitalismus haben aus dem divergierenden Bedürfnis nach Stabilisierung von Ordnungssystemen einerseits und neuer Sinnstiftung andererseits innovative disziplinäre Sichtweisen und Perspektiven auf den Mythos herausgefordert. Die gegenwärtige Mythenrenaissance ist geprägt durch Formenvielfalt. Die Mythen vernetzen sich sowohl in der Kunst als auch im Alltag, in Politik, Geschichte und in den Wissenschaften. Die Beiträge des Bandes reagieren auf diesen Wandel. Sie öffnen sich Neufigurationen des Mythos in unterschiedlichen Repräsentationsformen und stellen eine Vielzahl mythentheoretischer Ansätze zur Disposition. The fascination with myth continues. Out of their divergent needs for stabilization of systems of order on the one hand and new meaningfulness on the other hand, globalization and late capitalism have challenged innovative disciplinary viewpoints and perspectives on myth. The contemporary Renaissance of myth is characterized by a variety of forms. Myths are interconnected with the arts as well as everyday life, politics, history, and the sciences. The contributions to this volume respond to these changes, which open up to new configurations of myth in different forms of representation and subject a variety of mytho-theoretical rudiments to negotiation Cover History and Humour British and American Perspectives ; Contents; History and Humour Charting the Field; The Persistent Regency: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Illustrated Comic Literature; Richard Doyle's Comic Histories: A Victorian Look at the Middle Ages; History>from below