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.
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