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Laughing feminism : subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen / Audrey Bilger.
Van Pelt Library PR858.F45 B55 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bilger, Audrey, 1960-
- Series:
- Humor in life and letters
- Humor in life and letters series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Humorous stories, English--History and criticism.
- Humorous stories, English.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840--Humor.
- Burney, Fanny.
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849--Humor.
- Edgeworth, Maria.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Humor.
- Austen, Jane.
- Social norms in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1998]
- Contents:
- Women and comedy in eighteenth-century England
- Defiant laughter: Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist humor
- From inside jokes to published comedy
- Comedy in manners: making fun of the angel in the house
- Mocking the "Lords of creation": male comic characters
- The limits of sisterhood: satirizing women
- Goblin laughter: violent comedy and the condition of women.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814327222
- 0814326579
- OCLC:
- 38174508
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