Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Book

Women's humor is one of the last genres of women's writing to be "rediscovered." Camfield here challenges criticism that postulates "women's humor" as a new genre distinct from and in opposition to "men's humor." While examining the works of Irving, Fanny Fern, Twain, Stowe, and Melville, he argues that humor serves as an important tool for both men and women to manage their ambivalent feelings about the new ideology of domesticity so prevalent in nineteenth-century America.Read More

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  • 0195100409
  • 9780195100402
  • Gregg Camfield
  • 6 November 1997
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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