Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: '[A]s in most war fiction, humour predominates'
Defining Humour
Humour in the Field of Great War Studies
The Scope of Humour in British First World War Literature
References
Chapter 2: Humour and Britishness During the Great War: 'If a man brings us a joke, we require to be satisfied of its durability'
The Roots of British Wartime Humour
'Jokes Should Be Taxed in England like Opium in China': The Britishness of Humour as a Minor Feeling
The Boundaries of British Humour
References

Chapter 3: The Domestication of Death: 'There are lots of jokes'
'What Did I Say About That Face?' Death Comes Home in A Well-Remembered Voice
'There Once Was a Man in a Trench': Death in Trench-Newspaper Limericks and Nursery Rhyme Parodies
'Let Us Be Our Ordinary Selves, Won't You?': Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Class and Social Structure: 'It is not taken seriously'
'It's a Great Leveller This Army': Class, Revolution, Oblique Joking
'I've Only Learnt Things Like Greek and Latin and French and Spanish': Upper Class Women in War

'It Turns Out to be No Bomb [...] Recommended for License': Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: War and the Depiction of Gender: 'Let us hope for the best and assume that he is dead'
'You'll Find Him Different': Wartime Masculinity and Male Relationships
'They Are Having the Time of Their Lives, Probably Being Quite Useful too': War and Roles for Women
'We Must All Do More: It Being War time and All That': Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: The War and the Domestic Sphere: 'That perpetual sense of the ridiculous'