Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Women in Culture and Society - Eileen Gillooly - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226294018 - June 1, 1999
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Eileen Gillooly
Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Women in Culture and Society 1st edition

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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.

316 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 1, 1999
ISBN13 9780226294018
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 316
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   595 g
Language English  

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