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Necessary madness : the humor of domesticity in nineteenth-century American literature /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423758897 9781423758891 1602560781 9781602560789 1280451688 9781280451683 9786610451685 6610451680 |