Title Necessary madness : the humor of domesticity in nineteenth-century American literature / Gregg Camfield.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Oxford University Press on-line
	Oxford University Press on-line.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
Contents	ONE: Humor in a Heartless Haven; TWO: Home in a Rage; THREE: Tending the Home Fires; FOUR: Home, Sweat Home; FIVE: Madness Runs in Families; SIX: Humorneutics; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	This work offers an examination of the ways humour was used by major fiction writers in 19th-century America. It argues that humour served as an important tool to manage the ideology of domesticity so prevalent at the time, and shows how gender comes to bear upon comic techniques and sensibilities.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American wit and humor -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American wit and humor.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
	United States.
	History.
	Man-woman relationships in literature.
	Man-woman relationships in literature.
	Marriage in literature.
	Marriage in literature.
	Families in literature.
	Families in literature.
	Home in literature.
	Home in literature.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Camfield, Gregg. Necessary madness. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 0195100409 (DLC) 96026019 (OCoLC)34912800
ISBN	1423758897 (electronic book)
	9781423758891 (electronic book)
	1602560781
	9781602560789
	1280451688
	9781280451683
	0195100409 (Cloth)
	9780195100402

Title Necessary madness : the humor of domesticity in nineteenth-century American literature / Gregg Camfield.

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