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Laughing feminism
Laughing feminism: subversive comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen
Audrey Bilger
Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1998.
ISBN: 0814327222   DDC: 823.60917082   LCC: PR858  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.

1. Women and Comedy in Eighteenth-Century England -- 2. Defiant
Laughter: Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Humor -- 3. From Inside
Jokes to Published Comedy -- 4. Comedy in Manners: Making Fun of the
Angel in the House -- 5. Mocking the "Lords of Creation": Male Comic
Characters -- 6. The Limits of Sisterhood: Satirizing Women -- 7.
Goblin Laughter: Violent Comedy and the Condition of Women.

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Dewey Class: 823.60917082 -- English fiction
LCC Number: PR858

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Language: eng
Physical Description: 261 p. ; 24 cm.

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