Dickensian Laughter

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens''s friend and biographer John Forster declared that: ''His leading quality was Humour.'' At the end of Dickens''s career he was acclaimed as ''the greatest ...