{"product_id":"2026200014544-secondhand-comic-faith-the-great-tradition-from-austen-to-joyce","title":"Comic Faith: The Great Tradition From Austen To Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when comedy becomes a form of belief? In Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce, Robert M. Polhemus presents a groundbreaking argument that the great comic novelists of the 19th and early 20th centuries — from Jane Austen to James Joyce — constructed a secular faith rooted in laughter, wit, and the redemptive power of humour, offering an alternative to the declining authority of organised religion in the modern age.\n\nPolhemus chronicles the works of literary titans including Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Carroll, Meredith, and Joyce, illustrating how each author wielded comedy not merely as entertainment but as a profound moral and spiritual vision. His argument is bold and meticulously evidenced, drawing on close textual analysis to reveal the theological undercurrents running through seemingly playful narratives. Written with scholarly rigour yet accessible eloquence, Comic Faith stands as an essential text in Victorian and Modernist literary criticism — one that will leave you questioning whether the joke, after all, might be the most serious thing in English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203122536667,"sku":"2026200014544-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8fc283e8-0889-4b46-93ba-2a2706903429.png?v=1788144613","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014544-secondhand-comic-faith-the-great-tradition-from-austen-to-joyce","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}