Nineteenth-Century Amusements and Pocket Books

Graduate student field notes from “We are Amused”: Victorian Humour in the Digital Age I attended the "We Are Amused" conference on the 7th and 8th of November. This conference offered both unique perspectives and a refreshing dose of humour! I was particularly amused and interested to attend papers that shared jokes that would have been in circulation during the Victorian period as they departed from what we assumed to be the sombre norm of the period, from translated jokes brought into for...