| Description |
1 online resource (377 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in humor and gender ; v. 1 |
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Studies in humor and gender ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Contributors; Introduction: Unity in Difference?; I. DRAMA; "That's How It Is": Comic Travesties of Sex and Gender in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice; Imagining Consummation: Women's Erotic Language in Comedies of Dekker and Shakespeare; Dwindling into Wifehood: the Romantic Power of the Witty Heroine in Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve, and Austen; Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn's The Rover and Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body |
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Masquerade, Modesty, and Comedy in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's StrategemThe Sphinx Goes Wild(e): Ada Leverson, Oscar Wilde, and the Gender Equipollence of Parody; II. FICTION; When Women Laugh Wildly and (Gentle)Men Roar: Victorian Embodiments of Laughter; The Feminine Laughter of No Return: James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson; Courtship, Comedy, and African-American Expressive Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction; Feminism/Gender/Comedy: Meredith, Woolf, and the Reconfiguration of Comic Distance; "Between the Gaps": Sex, Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II |
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Alice Childress's Like One of the Family: Domestic and Undomesticated Domestic HumorFunny, Isn't It?: Testing the Boundaries of Gender and Genre in Women's Detective Fiction; III. FILM, STAND-UP COMEDY, AND CARTOON ART; Hollywood, 1934: "Inventing" Romantic Comedy; Mae West Was Not a Man: Sexual Parody and Genre in the Plays and Films of Mae West; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Sexism or Emancipation from Machismo?; Between the Laughter: Bridging Feminist Studies through Women's Stand-Up Comedy; Comic Strip-Tease: A Revealing Look at Women Cartoon Artists; Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comedy.
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European drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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Comic, The.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Comedy
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Comic, The
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European drama (Comedy)
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Komik
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Komödie
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Frau
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Humor (grappigheden)
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Sekseverschillen.
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Komedies.
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Vrouwen.
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finney, Gail, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781134304660 |
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1134304668 |
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