Last laughs : perspectives on women and comedy /: perspectives on women and comedy. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Regina Barreca.
• Editors: Barreca, Regina
• Contents: 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.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.99287; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English wit and humor -- History and criticism; American wit and humor -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries; Comic, The
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000579246; 9781000579147; 9781003273394
• Related ISBNs: 9781032226217
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