1.Introduction: Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, Laughter & Conviviality. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickenss Pantomime Violence. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, Edward Lears Travels in Nonsense and Europe.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, Capital Company Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, George Eliots Jokes.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, The Game of Words: A Victorian Clowns Gag-book and Circus Performance. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, Sassin back Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siиcle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall. - 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, What was New about the New Humour?: Barry Pains Divine Carelessness. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wildes Pen, Pencil and Poison
