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Contains 12 contributions written mainly by North American and British university-affiliated scholars of English literature addressing a range of writers, artists, and texts including the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; lampoon, satire, and parody in Victorian England; E.J. Milliken's cockney verse letters; Twain's influence on the American Jerome K. Jerome; Dickens' dystopian metacomedy, Hard Times ; Swinburne's transgressive correspondence; Oscar Wilde's Salom 'e ; and the all-but-forgotten humorous Victorian women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)