Sexual Humor in Dickens' Works

How Humor Works

About the Human Condition in the Works of Dickens and Marx

In their article "About the Human Condition in the Works of Dickens and Marx" Ami E. Stearns and Thomas J. Burns contribute to the study of Charles Dickens's Industrial Revolution-era fiction by examining his novels in relation to Karl Marx's social philosophy. Stearns and Burns postulate that Dickens relies on Marxist concepts of class consciousness, sacrifice, revolution, social antitheses, a...

Grotesque in Dickens

Children in Dickens ’ s

He was the most popular of the 19 century English novelists, the quintessential Victorian author one who is fondly remembered and read even today, by innumerable readers around the globe. Here is a small personal tribute to Charles Dickens, my favourite social novelist. In his novels, Dickens depicted the disorder, squalor, blight, decay, and the human misery of a modern industrial city.It was ...

Evolutionary Humor 1 Running head: EVOLUTIONARY HUMOR An Evolutionary Perspective on Humor: Sexual Selection or Interest Indication?

Are people who are funny more attractive? Or does being attractive lead people to be seen as funnier? The answer may depend on the underlying evolutionary function of humor. While humor has been proposed to signal “good genes,” we propose that humor also functions to indicate interest in social relationships – in initiating new relationships and in monitoring existing ones. Consistent with this...