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Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubs

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"Laura Fiss introduces us to the imagined community of a virtual club in The Idler's Club," a column in The Idler, and clubland novels by its key contributors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Israel Zangwill, James Barrie, and the transitional figure P. G. Wodehouse. This deeply-researched study, like the understudied works it recovers, is spiced with humor and repays sustained attention."" -Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

The Idlers Club

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/01/2023
      ISBN13: 9781474497145, 978-1474497145
      ISBN10: 1474497144

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Investigates whether a popular magazine can promote social mobility by joking about clubs

      Trade Review
      "Laura Fiss introduces us to the imagined community of a virtual club in The Idler's Club," a column in The Idler, and clubland novels by its key contributors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Israel Zangwill, James Barrie, and the transitional figure P. G. Wodehouse. This deeply-researched study, like the understudied works it recovers, is spiced with humor and repays sustained attention."" -Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

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