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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 5/31/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

Comic Mayhem in Barnaby Rudge Festive Comedy in Martin Chuzzlewit--Chapters in Study of the Comic Mythos...

FAIN: FB-13260-77

Richard G. Hannaford
University of Idaho (Moscow, ID 83844-9803)

To study the essentials of festive comedy in order to explain the roles of Hugh, Barnaby, Old Martin and others in Barnabv Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit order to reveal how there emerges in Dickens 1 fiction a pattern in which fantasy and foolery become incorporated into a more complex comic formula demanding serious attention.