The Comic Mode in English Literature From the Middle Ages to Today [Hardcover]

1. Introduction \ 2. Late Medieval \ i. The Second Shepherds' Play \ ii. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales \ iii. Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece \ 3. The Renaissance \ i. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream \ ii. Falstaff \ iii. Donne, The Flea \ iv. Marvell, The Garden \ 4. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century \ i. Restoration Comedy \ ii. Pope, The Rape of the Lock \ iii. The Vogue of Sentiment \ iv. Sterne, Tristram Shandy \ 5. The Nineteenth Century \ i. Austen, Emma \ ii. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers \ iii. Poking Fun at the Establishment \ iv. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest \ v. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat \ 6. The Twentieth Century \ i. George Bernard Shaw \ ii. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm \ iii. Beckett, Waiting for Godot \ iv. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim \ v. Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man \ vi. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary \ Notes \ Works Cited - On the Comic \ Works Cited - General \ Index.

Murray Roston is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel and Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Across a 40 year publication history, he has written on a wide variety of topics from Medieval to Contemporary literature.