Last Laughs (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Women and Comedy
Redaktion: Barreca, Regina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three "Sylvia" cartoons) included in this volume deal with the gender-specific nature of comedy. This pioneering collection observes the creation of women's comedy from a wide range of standpoints: political, sociological, psychoanalytical, linguistic, and historical. The writers explore the role of women's comedy in familiar and unfamiliar territory, from Austen to Weldon, from Behn to Wasserstein. The questions they raise will lead to a redefinition of the genre itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000579147
• Artikelnr.: 63902728

Autorenporträt

Regina Barreca, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at The University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Sylvia Nicole Hollander Introduction Regina Barreca Who Was That
Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra
Behn Catherine Gallagher Life After Sex: The Fictional Autobiography of
Delariver Manley Janet Todd Jane Austen: Irony and Authority Rachel M.
Brownstein Austen's Laughter Patricia Meyer Spacks Deflation of Male
Pretensions in Fanny Burney's Cecelia Kay Rogers Part II Sylvia Nicole
Hollander Frances Miriam Whitcher: Social Satire in the Age of Gentility
Linda A. Morris Hate and Humor as Empathetic Whimsy in Anne Thackeray
Ritchie Carol Hanbery MacKay Between Women: A Cross-Class Analysis of
Status and Anarchic Humor Regenia Gagnier Slaying the Angel and the
Patriarch: The Grinning Woolf Denise Marshall (En)gendering Laughter:
Woolf's Orlando as Contraband in the Age of Joyce Judy Little
Truth-Telling: The Self and the Fictions of Humor Mary Ann Rorison Caws
Part III Sylvia Nicole Hollander Ironic Autobiography: From The Waterfall
to The Handmaid's Tale, Nancy Walker Muriel Spark's Unknowing Fiction John
Glavin Metaphor-into-Narrative: Being Very Careful with Words Regina
Barreca Uncommon Woman: An Interview with Wendy Wasserstein Esther Cohen
Feminist Humor: Rebellious and Self-Affirming Lisa Merrill Daughters of
Anger/Material Girls: Con/Textualizing Feminist Criticism Jane Marcus
Towards a Humorous View of the Universe Fay Weldon. About the Contributors.
Index.

Rezensionen

'It is good to have this volume readily available again'

- Margaret D. Stetz, University of Delaware