Smile of Discontent : Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Women in Culture and Society
ISBN-10
0226294021
ISBN-13
9780226294025
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 15th, 1999
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms
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Argues that humour has long been viewed as a repressed feature of 19th-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen and Henry James, the book points to a wryly amusing perspective that differs in rhetoric, affect, and politics from traditional forms of comic expression.
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