TY - BOOK AU - English,James F. AU - English,James F. TI - Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain SN - 9781501734250 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - England KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Humor; Politics, Community --; One. Covert Operations: The Unworking of the “Working Community” in The Secret Agent --; Two. Imagining a Community of Men: Black(shirt) Humor in The Apes of God --; Three. Broken English: Disarticulated Community in Between the Acts --; Four. Barbarism as Culturism: Lucky Jim and the Politics of the Campus Novel --; Five. Actually Existing Postmodernism: The Comedy of Disorganization in The Golden Notebook --; Six. Community Relations: Policing Jokes in The Satanic Verses --; Bibliography of Works Cited --; Index; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734250 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501734250 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501734250/original ER -