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Aparna Uma brings us back to the 19th century (though it's very end): she close-reads the functions of humour in Arthur Conan Doyle’s "A Study in Scarlet"
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Aparna Prakashbabu Uma
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PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.