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Parody, pastiche and the play of genres - Gilbert and Sullivan's SavoyOperas, Carolyn Williams; the fissure King - parody, ideology and theImperialist narrative, Patricia Murphy; laughing at the Almighty -freethnking lampoon, satire and parody in Victorian England, David Nash;tipping Mr Punch "the Haffable Wink" - E.J. Miliken's Cockney verse letters,Patricia marks; American humour - the Mark of Twain on Jerome K. Jerome, JohnS. Batts; humour as daughterly defence in "Cranford", Eileen Gilooly;Dickens' Dystopian meta-comedy - "Hard Times", morals and religion, Joseph H.Gardner; transcendence through incongruity - the background of humour inCarlyle's "Sartor Resartus", Abigail Burnham Bloom; "falling into Philistinehands" - Swinburne's transgressive correspondence, Nicholas Freeman; Arnold'sirony and the deployment of Dandyism, James Najarian; "Salome" - re-dressingWilde on the rim, Rob K. Baum; the laugh of the new woman, Margaret D. Stetz.