
Published online:
21 September 2023
Published in print:
10 January 2023
Online ISBN:
9781474497169
Print ISBN:
9781474497145
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The Scotch humorist The Scotch humorist
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A comedy of anonymity A comedy of anonymity
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A highly antisocial society A highly antisocial society
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Sociable unsociability Sociable unsociability
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‘The pleasantest club in London’ ‘The pleasantest club in London’
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Unclubbability as class privilege Unclubbability as class privilege
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
5 Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness
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Pages
170–207
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Published:January 2023
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Fiss, Laura, 'Through a Club Window Wistfully: J. M. Barrie and the Politics of Social Awkwardness', The Idler's Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse (Edinburgh , 2023; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 21 Sept. 2023), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474497145.003.0006, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
J. M. Barrie presents a study in unclubbability, generally defined as an antisocial disposition. The chapter argues that this was a crafted element of Barrie’s persona to circumvent the notion that his social awkwardness might arise from his dramatic rise in social mobility. Barrie’s novels and periodical writings also ring changes on unclubbability, from an upwardly mobile Scottish journalist to a group of antisocial smokers to the clubman narrator of the novel that introduced Peter Pan.
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