Necessary madness: the humor of domesticity in nineteenth-century American literature
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1. Verfasser: Camfield, Gregg (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1997
Schriftenreihe:Oxford University Press on-line
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index
ONE: Humor in a Heartless Haven; TWO: Home in a Rage; THREE: Tending the Home Fires; FOUR: Home, Sweat Home; FIVE: Madness Runs in Families; SIX: Humorneutics; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This work offers an examination of the ways humour was used by major fiction writers in 19th-century America. It argues that humour served as an important tool to manage the ideology of domesticity so prevalent at the time, and shows how gender comes to bear upon comic techniques and sensibilities
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 236 pages)
ISBN:0195100409
1280451688
1423758897
1602560781
9780195100402
9781280451683
9781423758891
9781602560789

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