Smile of discontent : humor, gender, and nineteenth-century British fiction
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.
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
9780226294018, 9780226294025, 0226294013, 0226294021
39951790