Author: Jane Anne Curry
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Women as Subjects and Writers of Nineteenth Century American Humor
Author: Jane Anne Curry
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A Very Serious Thing
Author: Nancy A. Walker
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816617023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Defines why women have been blocked from participating in the mainstream of American comedy yet have overcome hurdles to produce a humor that is sustaining and spells survival for women in society.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816617023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Defines why women have been blocked from participating in the mainstream of American comedy yet have overcome hurdles to produce a humor that is sustaining and spells survival for women in society.
Women Vernacular Humorists in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Linda Ann Morris
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362268
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317362268
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Marietta Holley
Author: Kate H. Winter
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.
Regents' Proceedings
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
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Studies in American Humor
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature
Author: Alfred Habegger
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231053975
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In this study of the 19th-century American novel, the author demonstrates the imaginative continuity between sentimental and realistic fiction and sets out to establish that realism is the central and preeminent literary type in America, a mode grounded in the tradition of women's popular fiction which shaped the nation's reading habits in the mid-19th century. He examines this feminine literature, with its common technique of symbolizing deeper social conflicts through patterns of courtship, marriage, and gender roles. Contends that Howells and James owe much of their fictional domain to the often-disparaged household dramas of these female precursors.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231053975
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In this study of the 19th-century American novel, the author demonstrates the imaginative continuity between sentimental and realistic fiction and sets out to establish that realism is the central and preeminent literary type in America, a mode grounded in the tradition of women's popular fiction which shaped the nation's reading habits in the mid-19th century. He examines this feminine literature, with its common technique of symbolizing deeper social conflicts through patterns of courtship, marriage, and gender roles. Contends that Howells and James owe much of their fictional domain to the often-disparaged household dramas of these female precursors.
Redressing the balance
Author: Zita Dresner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Gathers humorous stories, poetry, and essays by American writers from Anne Bradstreet to Erma Bombeck and Erica Jong.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Gathers humorous stories, poetry, and essays by American writers from Anne Bradstreet to Erma Bombeck and Erica Jong.
Proceedings of the Board of Regents
Author: University of Michigan. Board of Regents
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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